Quotes

Some of these quotes teachers will relate to and others parents will appreciate.

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar." ~Helen Keller

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges." ~Joyce A. Myers

"Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." ~Clay P. Bedford

"The secret of education is respecting the pupil." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." ~Carl W. Buechner

"Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher." ~Buddha

"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” ~Dr. Haim Ginott

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." ~Albert Einstein

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." ~Donald D. Quinn

More Quotes...

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~Voltaire

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." ~F.E.Witcraft

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully." ~Tryon Edwards

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” ~Chinese Proverb

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." ~Henry Brooks Adams

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ~W. B. Yeats

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." ~Dalai Lama

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa

"Whoever first coined the phrase 'you're the wind beneath my wings' most assuredly was reflecting on the sublime influence of a very special teacher." --Frank Trujillo

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." ~Japanese Proverb

"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race." ~John F. Kennedy

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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