"FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS"
"The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."
Norman Cousins
"The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning."
Nathan M. Pusey
"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."
John F. Kennedy
"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
Winston Churchill
"If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear."
Tai Babilonia
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
Albert Einstein
"Love your children especially when they do not deserve it. It's they who need it most."
Juan T. David --- Submitted by Julie Feliciano --- Philippines
I'm borrowing from the wisdom of my father and his father before him. I hope parents, who at one time or another are frustrated with their children, will appreciate the value of understanding and tolerance.
"Every knowledge starts with reason and ends in faith."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Surjit Singh --- India
"Any Individual imparting positive knowledge to another individual or a group can be defined as a Teacher."
Written in 2006 by Nikita Jaggi --- India
"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
Frederick Douglass
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
"The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great."
G.K. Chesterton
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble."
Rudyard Kipling
"Sit down before a fact like a little child and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion.Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner
"Students are alive, and the purpose of education is to stimulate and guide their self-development. It follows as a corollary from this premise that teachers should also be alive with living thoughts."
Alfred North Whitehead
"When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them."
Confucius
"Teaching is more a passion than a profession."
Written in 2006 Mau Nivales --- Philippines
"Those who dream the most do the most."
Written in 2006 by Pravin Chamlikar --- India
"Determination is what gains you respect, but nothing you ever do will make you perfect. And this you should understand."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.G., Age 18 --- Alberta, Canada
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
Harriet Martineau
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
Matsuo Basho
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury