Welcome to Mrs. Buckner's sixth and seventh grade language arts and literature classes.  I'm glad you're here!

Favorite Quotes

"We leave traces of ourselves whereever we go, on whatever we touch.."---Lewis

""The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."---Hutchins

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world.  It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."---Van Dyke

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."---Menninger

"The highest reward for our toil is not what we get from it, but rather what we become by it."----Anonymous

"The greatest natural resource any country can have is its children."---Kaye

"The purpose in life is not to be happy but to matter---to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you have lived at all."---Anonymous

"Teaching is painful, continual, and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching and by praise, but above all by example."---Ruskin

"Carve your name on hearts and not on marble."--Spurgeon

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."---Shaffer

"I expect to pass through this world but once.  Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindnesss that I can show to any fellow creature, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."---Anonymous