Here are some of my favorite quotes about teaching and being a child/student:
"The purpose of education is to provide everyone with the opportunity to
learn how he may best serve the world."
"A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at
explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding."
"To teach is to learn twice."
"The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious; to have one idea
spark another."
"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she
is someone today."
"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
may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
"I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the
classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my
daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous
power to make a child'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 deescalated or a child humanized or dehumanized."
"A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a
mark."
"Believe as a child believes and the magic will find you."
"Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely."
"One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never."
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching."
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
"Children have more need of models than critics."
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the ability to teach."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy
of life is when adults are afraid of the light."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance."
"Teach where you can make a difference!"
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his
teacher."
"The absence of literacy is silence."
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
"Interest and attention will insure to you an education."
"The broader you make your education, the deeper a person it will make you."
"My potential for success as a student and a leader is in my ability to
think, apply myself, create, question, produce, read, write, and understand
what is required of me. I will develop these abilities."
"Never be afraid to ask questions for fear of looking foolish. You will
benefit from the answer and so will others who had the same question but
were afraid to speak up."
"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it
distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of
a wide kind."
"You learn something everyday, if you pay attention."
"No two people have the same learning style. The five ways are: listening,
speaking, reading, writing, and doing. Some people need to repeat what they
have heard. When studying with friends, help each other according to your
learning styles."
"Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill."
"We often look ahead at the work we have to do and wonder how we’ll get it
all done. It is useful to take stock occasionally, and appreciate how much
we have already accomplished through our own efforts."
"No two snowflakes are alike. No two works of are exactly the same. Nature
has created each of us to be unique and original. Let’s appreciate,
celebrate, and respect our infinite diversity."
"I think children who are hugged, and children who are held on laps will
always associate reading with the bodies of their parents… When you not only
hear a treasured story, but also are pressed against the most wonderful
person in the world, a connection is made that cannot be severed."
"One of the most important things a teacher can do is to send the pupil home
in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in
that morning."
"I have nothing new to teach; truth and nonviolence are as old as hills and
mountains."
"The greatest failure is the failure to try."
"The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"In years to come a child may forget what you taught them, but will always
remember how you made them feel."
"You can pay people to teach, but you can't pay them to care."
"A good teacher remembers what it was like to be taught by their favorite
teacher."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future
life."
"Hate is a learned behavior. Replace hate with understanding, acceptance,
and compassion."
"Children need coaches rather than cheerleaders."
"Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off the goal."
"That’s all there is, is risk. You just have to take a chance and leap into
life."
"Embrace the difference in yourself and in others."
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much
you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what
you don't know."
"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this
I call tragedy."
"What you teach is who you are."
