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- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
- “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Maimonides
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” Japanese Proverb
- “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” Elin Nordegren
- July 18th “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela (Top Nelson Mandela Quotes) (July 18, 1918)
- “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb
- “Children are 1/3rd of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist (February 4, 1913
- “Integrity is the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.” Tony Dungy (October 6, 1955) former professional football player and coach
- “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” Nelson Mandela
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” Edward Everett
- “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
- “Never underestimate a public school teacher.” Tim Walz
- July 12th “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) writer, theologian, scholar
- Albert Einstein Quotes: “I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the TRUTH comes to me.”
- “The opposite of play is not work, it is depression. Depression results from serious lack of play.” Dr. Stuart Johnson
- “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man.” Horace Mann
- Definition of Creativity: “The ability to transcend traditional ideas, and to create meaningful new ideas.”
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
- “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs
- “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom.” George Washington Carver
- “Parents must recognize that choosing their children’s playdates (verses the children choosing) and setting expectations for extra-curricular activities, music lessons, tutors – fully scheduling their kids – perhaps in the well-intentioned pursuit of an Ive League college is not the best path for their beloved child.” Dr. Stuart Johnson
- “It always seems impossible until its done.” Nelson Mandela
- “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Maimonides
- “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” Nelson Mandela
- “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” Nelson Mandela
- “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Nelson Mandela
- July 26th “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
- “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
- “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
- “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James A Garfield
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost
- AUGUST “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) writer, theologian, scholar
- August 3rd “Our passion is and always should be to make life better.” Martha Stewart
- “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” Elin Nordegren
- “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau
- “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Maimonides
- “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes
- “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” William S. Burroughs
- “What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” Chuck Grassley
- August 9th: “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.” Jean Piaget
- “Education is the vaccine of violence.” Edward James
- “Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival.” W. Edwards
- “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris
- “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” Tibetan Proverb
- “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” Abigail Adams
- “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” Brian Tracy
- “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So … get on your way!” Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
- “It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” Meister Eckhart
- “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” Douglas Pagels
- August 19th “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “Be true to your school now, just like you would to your girl or guy. Be true to your school now and let your colors fly.” The Beach Boys, “Be True to Your School”
- “Be the best of whatever you are.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.” Lemony Snicket, “Shouldn’t You Be in School?”
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
- “A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” Joyce Meyer
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” Bob Talbert
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu
- August 28th: “Everything is hard before it is easy.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein
- August 30th “The beginning is always today.” Mary Shelley
- “No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers.” Wolfgang Riebe
- “There is no friends as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
- “We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
- “The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist’. ” Maria Montessori
- “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
- “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
- “Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
- “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
- “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” Alfred Mercier
- “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” Albert Einstein
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King
- “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” George Evans
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
- “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers
- “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
- “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Confucius
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato
- “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
- “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou
- “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” Confucius
- “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” Author Unknown
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
- “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn, he will continue the learning process.” Clay P. Bedford
- “The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you… who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau.” Dan Rather
- “When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” William Glasser
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond
- “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison
- “Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” Abraham Lincoln
- “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.” Unknown
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.” Chinese Proverb
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
- “They [rocks] will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.“ John Lubbock
- “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden.” Author Unknown
- “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle
- “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
- “The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” Gail Godwin
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
- “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
- “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
- “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
- “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
- “If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
- “We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
- “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
- “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
- “Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
- “I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
- “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul