The road to success is always under construction.
Author Unknown
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts
Author Unknown
Learning is finding out what you already know. ~ Richard Bach
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ~ O. A. Battista
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Shoot for the stars.
Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown
Honor your commitments with integrity.
Les Brown
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ~Alec Bourne
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go.
Only then should he instruct others.
Buddha
The essence of education is to help you discover your uniqueness,
Teach you how to develop it, and show you how to give it away.
Leo Buscaglia
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Barbara Bush
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell
Blessed are the hearts that can bend;
They shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
Education is the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton
Tell me and I'll forget;
Show me and I may remember;
Involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese Proverb
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.~John Cotton Dana
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak K. Chopra
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.~ E.E. Cummings
To think is to differ.~Clarence Darrow
Your work should be in praise of what you love. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the educated are free. ~ Epictetus
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm Forbes
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb
If you would thoroughly know anything,
Teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
It is the supreme art of the teacher
To awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
If a child can't learn the way we teach,
Maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.~Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ~Robert Frost
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Too often we give young people cut flowers,
instead of teaching them to grow their own plants.
John Gardner
The teacher is the chief learner in the classroom. ~ Donald Graves
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better,
is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot
To teach is to learn twice. ~ Joseph Joubert
Knowledge rests not just upon truth, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.
C.B. Neblette
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.~ Wendell Phillips
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong,
which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot always build the future for our youth,
but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
More important than the curriculum
Is the question of the methods of teaching
And the spirit in which the teaching is given.
Bertrand Russell
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
The only way you can change someone,
Is to first change yourself.
Barbara Shelby
There is one truth to the right, and one truth to the left,
The truest truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Barbara Shelby
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~ Socrates
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Bob Talbert
The road to success is always under construction ~Lily Tomlin
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
Mark Twain
The best way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
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
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student
just below the relation of a mother to a son...
Thomas Wolfe
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ W. B. Yeats
Education is bitter but the fruit is sweet. ~ Agustin Marissa
Imagination...is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness~ Melowpark College
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of
recognition, but those who have touched our humanity
we remember with a deep sense of gratitude. ~ Anonymous
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school,
I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~ Anonymous
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