Did I get that right, Sharie?
To all the teachers out there... Keep up the good work. If you're a parent caring for your kids, you're a most important teacher too!
For Teachers:
"Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark." - Anatole France
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Brooks Adams
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - Thomas Carruthers
" A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann (1796-1859)
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser
"Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example." - John Ruskin
"Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively." - R.D. Clyde
"Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know." - R. Verdi
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." - Josef Albers
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates
"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" - Rita Dunn
"If what you're doing isn't working, try something else!" - NLP adage
"I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different." - Oscar Wilde
"I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son." - Thomas Wolfe
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Men learn while they teach." - Lucius A. Seneca
"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives." - Thomas Mann
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity." - Samuel Johnson
"Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon" - E. M. Forster
"Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating." - C.B. Neblette
"Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited." - Plutarch
"There are no difficult students - just students who don't want to do it your way" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman
"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert
"We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning." - John Carolus S. J.
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." - George Bernard Shaw
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana
"You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails." - Anonymous
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Christians are to teach The Word! :O)
2 Timothy 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Romans 10:12-15 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Happy Teachers' Day, Suwei and D!
Posted by: Carol | September 02, 2007 at 06:23 PM