"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
George Bernard Shaw --- Submitted by Didi C. --- California
"The most valuable piece of real estate you own is the six inches between your ears."
Jodie Victor --- Submitted by Matt Phipps --- NSW, Australia
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Graeme Sullivan --- New Zealand
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us."
Marcel Proust
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
"People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us."
Walt Disney
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Maria Montessori
"I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son."
Thomas Wolfe
"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."
Sidney J. Harris
"The only limit you have is the one you set for yourself. The sky is the limit, so pick up your wings of knowledge and take off!!"
Copyright © 2005 John Strickland
"3D = Success: Determination, Dedication & Discipline are the three main pillars for Success."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vipul Rana --- Gujarat, India
"Change in society cannot be achieved with shouts or cries on the streets. If we want to change our society, let's start within our family."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dennis Escalona --- Negros Occidental, Philippines
"Don't let what you know be all you know."
Written in 2005 by Chris R. --- Kentucky
"Hard work with positive intention never FAILS."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Accel IT Academy --- Kerala, India
"A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
James B. Stockdale
"Dare to be different."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.B., Age 18 --- Massachusetts
I know this quote seems kind of dumb and you've probably heard it a million times, but I can't help but think of it every time I'm walking into school or a party and I'm wearing something a little different or I did my hair a little different that day. I don't know, it makes me feel brave.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell --- Submitted by Cray H., Age 17 --- Singapore
Learn to have doubts...It will make you much wiser and help you a lot in life.
"Success is your sweetest revenge."
Written in 2005 by Candice A., Age 18 --- Florida
I wrote this after a good friend wanted to give up on school, because everyone told him he wouldn't make it.
"Teachers are some of the most inspirational people, but some have forgotten just what that really means. Some might say that "to inspire" means to touch someone's heart and lift them from their emotional slump, but these people are but just a little off. "To inspire", is to hold another's heart in your hands, fill it with hope, believe in it, and watch it glow. "To inspire", is to lift a person from the depths of the deepest, coldest ocean and raise them to touch the hands of the angels in the heavens above. "To inspire", is to make all dreams not only seem possible, but be possible. Most of all, "to inspire" is to love. Teachers inspire simply be being there, like a beacon of light and hope, shining through the darkness."
Written in 2005 by Courtney S., Age 14 --- Tennessee
"They say children are the future, but really teachers are the key to the future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Miracle Tillman --- California