Favorite Quotes
Anonymous
The Teacher's Prayer
My Lord, I do not ask to standAs king or prince of high degree.
I only pray that, hand in hand,
A child and I may come to thee.
Norman E. Richardson
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley
Enough has been said to show that music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
Aristotle
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca
Life is like music--a great creative Idea, a dynamic and pulsing spirit.
Unknown
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
Aldous Huxley
Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those who sing best.
Anonymous
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and stuff them elegantly.
Lola May
School is a building that has four walls--with tomorrow inside.
Lon Watters
The cost of educating a child today is immense. But the cost of not educating a child is incalculable.
Anonymous
A young child, a fresh uncluttered mind, a world before him--to what treasures will you lead him?
Gladys M. Hunt
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North Whitehead
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
Robert H. Shaffer
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Anonymous
Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? You should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been a child like you. And look at your body-what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may be a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.
Pablo Casals
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
Anonymous
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