Words of Wisdom for Educators
A good teacher is someone who says something you won't understand
until ten years later. - Julius Lester
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Steve Droke
My future starts when I wake up every morning...Every day I find something
creative to do with my life. - Miles Davis
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert
technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight,
if possible.
- Robert M. Hutchins
The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and
women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative,
inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. - Jean
Piaget
What the teacher is , is more important that what he teaches.
-Karl Menninger
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence
stops. - Henry Adams
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins
Human beings generally respond to loving concern. There is
more power in a thimbleful of tears than in a barrel of logic. - C. Franklin Allee
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day,
So prone myself to go astray?
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
Oh let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on Thee. - Leslie Pinckney Hill
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
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
Remind your students today that every piece of schoolwork completed
is a self-portrait of the one who did it.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann
At home, loving is the greatest teacher. In the classroom,
caring is the greatest teacher.
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. - Robert Frost
Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. - Charles H.
Spurgeon
In teaching and almost any other profession, they won't care how
much you know until they know how much you care. - Anonymous
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford
Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods
would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best.
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience
the joy of discovery. - Alfred North Whitehead
The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it, but rather
what we become by it. - Anonymous
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement
is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading
further gloom. - George M. Adams
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have
been taught. - Marquis of Halifax
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility
upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while
he knows something. - Wilson Mizner
We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose
sight of the shore. - Anonymous
If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what
it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else. - Clinton Davidson
Teaching is painful, continual, and difficult work to be done by
kindness, by watching, and by praise, but above all by example. - John Ruskin
Knowledge which is obtained under compulsion obtains no hold on
the mind. - Plato
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet,
almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement
they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
- Sidney Madwed
