“My 12 years as a public school student where I keenly felt the inviting and disinviting signals sent to me by the schools, my years as a public school teacher in a wonderful school that taught me about the human side of teaching, and my role as a university professor at several major universities where I was mentored by world-class professors.”
(Purkey credits his leadership characteristics to these threee events) http://www.elmle.org/CopenhagenSpeakers.htm
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A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.
Adapted from an L.L. Bean Co. poster: "What is a customer?" by J. M. Eaten
Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.
Purkey is the source of this quotation that is attributed to many others: it was made popular in the song "Come From The Heart" written by Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh. Purkey closed his speeches with this poem and it has now made it into the public domain.
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