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There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
Sep 29, 2025
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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