National Teacher Appreciation Week
May 7 -11 is National Teacher Appreciation Week. In honor of
all the dedicated and hardworking teachers here are a few inspirational quotes.
Enjoy!
1.
“I
touch the future. I teach.” Christa McAuliffe
2.
“A
teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to
learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann
3.
“The
art of teaching is the act of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
4.
“The
mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
5.
“If
I can put one thought of rosy sunset into the life of any man, woman or child.
I shall feel that I have worked with God.” George MacDonald
6.
“A
teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.” Henry
Adams
7.
“What
the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menniger
8.
“The
true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his
own opinion, but to kindle minds.” Frederick W. Robertson
9.
“The
object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout
their live.” Robert Maynard Hutchins
10. “The man who can make hard things
easy is the educator.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Teaching that impacts is not head to
head, but heart to heart.” Howard G. Hendricks
12. “I do not teach children, I give them
joy.” Isadora Duncan
13. “Theories and goals of education don’t
matter a whit if you don’t consider your students to be human beings.” Lou Ann
Walker
14. “To know how to suggest is the great
art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we
must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music.” H.F. Amiel
15. “We cannot always build the future
for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Franklin D.
Roosevelt
16. “Teach the young people how to think,
not what to think.” Sidney Sugarman
17. “The greatest sign of success for a
teacher…is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not
exist.” Maria Montessori
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