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"To teach is to touch a life forever."

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars."

"Teachers nurture the seeds of today so they may bloom into the flowers of tomorrow."

"Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime."

“Children carry more between home and school than a lunch and a backpack. Working together, we can lighten their load.”

“School psychologists can provide solutions for tomorrow’s problems through thoughtful and positive actions today.”

"A great teacher loves teaching others to love learning"

" Every child has a gift; each just opens them at different times."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad"

"As good teachers weave the fabric that joins then with students and subjects, the heart is the loom on which threads are tied: the tension is held, the shuttle flies, and the fabric is stretched tight. Small wonder, then that teaching tugs at the heart, opens the heart, even breaks the heart-and the more one loves teaching, the more heartbreaking it can be."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."


"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity! "


"Live life to the fullest for you only have one life to live."


"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

"Speech-Language Pathology- because silence isn’t always golden."


"Children need models, rather than critics"

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending"


"The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams."


"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skills."


"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

 
"Seek education rather than grades. Seek your best rather than someone else's. Seek friendship rather than acceptance. Seek worth rather than rank. Seek to build rather than to tear down. Seek laughter and love in spite of pain and you will have learned to live."

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Borges, Jorge Louis

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - In Poema de los Dones

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Bryant, Paul "Bear"

"You must learn how to hold a team together. You lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then, you've got yourself a team."

Buechner, Carl W.

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

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Davis. Kathy

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove....but the world maybe different because I was important in the
life of a child"

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Finish each day and be done with it . . . Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely."

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Gill, Victoria M. (from A Passion for Teaching)

"I believe my attitude toward school would have been very different if I'd had even one teacher try to figure out why I was acting like such a jerk."

"In my classes my students are rewarded for asking, "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" This shows that they are concerned with their educations, and I'd better have an answer."

"Teachers bear an awesome responsibility because a casual comment by a teacher will become part of a student's life script."

 

Griffin, Connie

"Mrs. Eldredge, my first-grade teacher in Freedom, New Hampshire. I was very shy but she was caring and gave us a lot of attention, and the more I teach the more I think kids need that - to be cared for, to be given attention, to be acknowledged and respected as a person even though they are little outside."

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Hulbert, Harold S.

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

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Katafiasz, Karen

"Be aware that you teach so much more than a subject. You are opening minds and hearts; you are shaping lives"

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LeGuin, Ursula K.

"It is good to have an end to journey toward but its the journey that matters in the end."

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Mother Teresa

"Unless life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile."

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Rowan, Carl Thomas

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."

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Sandburg, Carl

“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.”

Shanley, Mary Kay

"In today's world, knowing the answer may not be as powerful as knowing where to find the answer."

Stegner, Wallace

" It is a reduction of our Humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'... Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones."

Stuart, Jesse

“I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the teacher is immortal.”

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United States Army Moto

"Be all you can be."

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Walter, Sheryln

"Teach, encourage, inspire, respect and be good to all children. They hold your future in their hands"

Ward, William Arthur

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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