"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"When lessons are hard and students fail, I see them not as students who try and fail but human beings who fail and try. It makes me proud that they persevere despite the anxiety and the invisible scar failure leaves on them."
Copyright © 2006 Mau Nivales
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Emma Goldman
"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter
"When we recognize that we are all learning and growing together, that the teacher is also a learner and the child can be a great teacher, then we are able to share the respect that each of us deserves."
Nannette Wylde --- Submitted by M.S., Age 17 --- California
A special person in my life, who was my teacher and now my mentor and has known me my whole life, shared this with me recently.
"The only way to fully understand something is to teach it to someone who doesn't."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Matt Tollenaar --- Australia
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
"I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday."
Abraham Lincoln
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake
"To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never been known. They will endure. Towards these ends I pledge my life's work. I will supply the children with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles. I will pass on the wisdom of my years and temper it with patience. I shall impact in each child the desire to fulfill his or her dream. I shall teach."
Henry James
"Reading is exercise for your brain. Just like aerobics, it keeps your mind fit."
Copyright © 2006 LaQuitta Terrell-Jones
"From the beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
Alfred North Whitehead
"A great teacher is one who possesses information, intelligence, and the instincts to know how to present what he knows."
Socrates
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Carl Jung
"He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius
"Children are the messengers sent to you by God to teach you the lessons of innocence, patience and truthfulness that you have long forgotten."
Copyright © 2006 Nikita Jaggi
"Even something difficult to understand makes you understand it's difficult to understand."
Written in 2006 by Thomas Falk --- Illinois
"Attitudes are more important than facts."
Karl A. Menninger
"You are the candles that light our future."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Laxmi G. --- India
"A teacher is one who can put himself / herself into the shoes of the students."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Rana K. ---India
"If you want to be a good teacher, always feel yourself a good student."
Written in 2006 by Govind Chandhok --- India