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	I Love Being a Teacher... Tell A Teacher you love being in their class... One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Adams Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown 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 None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ~Thurgood Marshall I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward ( I hope that I will inspire you) clittle The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842 Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ~Marva Collins The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren