"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
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"Sometimes you try to look so far ahead of you, you miss all the wonderful things that are right in front of you."
Copyright © 2002 Anne Marie Wilkens
I would like to thank my health teacher for this wonderful idea, and for my old history teacher, Mr. Crider, for always keeping a positive spirit!
"An education is something no one can take away from you."
Robert D. Owen --- Submitted by Kim B., Age 18 --- South Carolina
"Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't."
Pete Seeger
"There are two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
John Adams --- Submitted by Cynthia R., Age 17 --- New York
On teaching, learning and life...
"You must first touch the heart before you can teach the mind."
Copyright © 1985 Jean Elizabeth Workman
When I started doing presentations for teachers, I liked using quotes that pertained to my subject. With many years of experience under my belt (31 yrs.), I realized that it isn't the program, or the basal, or the wealth of the school, that makes a real difference in a child's life. It is in fact, being able to reach the heart of the child before they open their mind's to what you have to offer. It's all about making links. As I have used this quote many times, I've also realized that these words have merit in any life situation.
"Everything and everyone can be better than they are."
Copyright © 1996 Mark Sullivan
"I would like to thank my Algebra II and Teacher Cadet teacher, Mrs. Pickett. This remarkable woman I met this year not only loves each and every student, as if they were her own child, but she takes the time to answer questions, not just ask them like most teachers do. My life has been hard lately, and I just want to thank her for letting me know that she cares about me."
Written in 2002 by Kristin H., Age 16 --- North Carolina
"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
John Wayne --- Submitted by Nicolas Salibrici
Most people fudge the meaning of the quotes, especially my students. It does not mean that anyone isstupid, however; it means that if your actions are stupid then life will indeed become tougher.
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran
"Be inspired to produce, instead of looking for reason to have an excuse."
Copyright © 2002 Diane Horsey
"My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which, I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
Albert Einstein
"Firmness hurts now but loves forever."
Copyright © 2002 Israel Fernando
"When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy;
Say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikas S., Age 16 --- Maharashtra, India
"Knowledge is your door to your mind.
Your mind is your door to success."
Copyright © 2002 Nikolay Nikolov
"I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children."
Marva Collins --- Submitted by V.S., Age 17 --- Utah
To the teacher who really cares
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
Albert Einstein
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
"A teacher ... takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart and shapes the future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vikas S., Age 16 --- Maharashtra, India
"You teach a little by what you say. You teach the most by what you are."
Dr. Henrietta Mears --- Submitted by Marci McAdam --- Alberta, Canada
Dreams are the threads of things that can be.
But it's the fabric we must choose to weave.
For myself, I choose to be,
A weaver of Dreamers, for their dreams I'll see.
Copyright © 2002 Leonard Momeny
For my children and wife
"I have nothing new to teach; truth & nonviolence are as old as hills & mountains."
Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Gururaj N.M. --- Karnataka, India
"God can't be everywhere; that's why he made teachers."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Simone A., Age 15 --- Gauteng, South Africa
"One of the most important things a teacher can do is to send the pupil home in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in that morning."
Ernest Melby --- Submitted by VikeStudent, Age 17 --- Utah
"To learn and never be filled --- is wisdom.
To teach and never be weary --- is love."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by "C" D --- Ontario, Canada
"To educate a man, is to educate an individual;
To educate a woman, is to educate and liberate a whole nation."
Malik El-Shabbaz (Malcolm X) --- Submitted by S.R. --- United Kingdom