Words To Teach By

 

 

Teachers have dreams. They dream about children playing, laughing, learning, struggling, creating, and growing. Join us for a few dreamy thoughts to refresh your enthusiasm and inspiration for the most important task on earth--teaching children.

 

 

 

 

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

 

--Stephen Mallarme

 

 

Every child comes with a message that God is yet not discouraged by man.

 

--Unknown

 

 

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

 

--Albert Einstein

 

 

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

 

--Tom Brokaw

 

 

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

 

--Albert Einstein

 

 

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

 

--William James

 

 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

 

--Robert Frost

 

 

The understanding of atomic physics is child's play, compared with the understanding of child's play. 

 

 -- David Kresh 

 

 

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gains is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

 

--Barbara Walters

 

 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

 

--William Butler Yeats

 

 

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

 

--John Jay Chapman

 

 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

 

--Kahlil Gibran

 

 

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will 

set their feet where yours are set.

 

--Robert E. Lee

 

 

You have never really lived until you've done something for someone who can never repay you.

 

--Unknown

 

 

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

 

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

 

Children are true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthood without losing 

the ability to see through young eyes.

 

--Anne Geddes

 

 

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

 

--Lady Bird Johnson

 

 

Every child is born a potential genius.

 

--R. Buckminister Fuller

 

 

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

 

--Robert E. Lee

 

 

Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, 

how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like. 

But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child.

 

--Anonymous

 

 

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

 

--Barbara Johnson

 

 

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

 

--Abigail Adams

 

 

We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused their curiosity. In a different kind of environment, our curiosity might have been nipped long before it could have borne fruit.  

 

 

 -- Orville Wright

 

 

 

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