"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"Never say "I can't", say "I will" and then you will succeed."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Honi Brown --- Missouri
This was a quote that my music teacher had posted in our choir room when I was in Junior High. Anytime we said that we could not do something we had to repeat this quote in front of the class.
"We all like to imitate our heroes. What's better is if we become our own hero and help others, for that is the best thing for one to imitate."
Written in 2006 by Allen Steble --- Australia
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. The more I realize I don't know, the more I want to learn."
Albert Einstein
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."
Thomas Jefferson
"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
Walter Bagehot
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
Erich Fromm
"The problem with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."
Walt West
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
Epictetus
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things."
Peter Drucker & Warren Bennis --- Submitted by Eben Van der Nest
"EVERYTHING starts small."
Mildred Kay Williams --- Submitted by Adam Schmidt
Examples:
1. Many children's births, even your grandparents' births, started with a little look, smile, hi, hello.........
2. Everything is made up of atoms.
3. One of many good scientific theories is that our entire universe began as one "singularity". Literally nothing is smaller than that.It's infinitely small.
4. All life began as one single protein.
5. A spark..............then a forest fire.
I'm a teacher because I care,
I'm a teacher because we are rare,
I'm a teacher because I come to class prepared,
I'm a teacher because I want your chance to be Fair.
Written in 2006 by Champagne Lloyd --- New Jersey
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Sir William Osler
"Just because humans can reason doesn't mean they are reasonable."
Written in 2006 by Rick Cowart --- Arkansas
Written in a school classroom.
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
Heraclitus
"Life for some is a bed of roses, to some a garden of thorns, yet to others, a mixture of both. But whatever your fate in life, a positive attitude towards it will affect a positive change."
Written in 2006 by Otobong Adaise ---Nigeria
"The easiest lessons to remember are the ones you learn the hard way!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Purvi Jadhav --- India
"Hard work is not only a function of skill, but an act of will."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Meikan Gabriel --- Kenya
"A leader explains simple things in a typical manner while a teacher explains typical things in a simple manner."
Written in 2006 by Govind Chandhok --- India
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
Ralph Nader
"There is a story behind every face."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sandra Wagner --- Illinois
"Another school year has begun; another year of 'Don't Knows'. It's is the time of year when you enter each new class and look into the eyes of children. They are children with love, without love, lonely children, hungry children, frustrated children. As we look deep into their eyes we see the longing to belong, to be heard, to be loved.
As teachers we wonder how it is ever going to be humanly possible to teach them Math, English, How to Succeed, How to Put their Past Behind Them, How to Make Great Individuals of Themselves? If we are going to attempt this feat with our own human strength, we will have failed even before we begin.
Let us see them as mirrors reflecting what many of us were years ago. Let us see them as we would see our own children. Let us not segregate ourselves from these darlings, in trouble teen rainment. Let us clothe them with wisdom, love and understanding. With Jesus as our Master Teacher, we can make angelic scholars of the fertile souls set before us."
Copyright © 2006 Barbara Kington
"When I started believing that the laws of physics were the only permanent things in this world and every other thing else could be changed, I came across the theory of relativity."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saransh S., Age 16 --- Delhi, India