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** A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
        Henry Brooks Adams

** Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
        Aristotle

** In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
        Jacques Barzun

** Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
        Marva Collins

** Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
        W. E. B. DuBois

** The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
        Dan Rather

** Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
        Author Unknown

** The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
        William Arthur Ward

** 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

** What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
        Karl Menninger

** Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
        Author Unknown

** The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
        Author Unknown

** Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
        John Cotton Dana

** 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.
        Kathy Davis

** I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
        Author Unknown

** Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
        Vernon Law

** They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
        Mother Teresa

** It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.
        Robert Hutchins

** It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted that really counts.
        Unknown

** By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
        Latin Proverb

** Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
        Sidney Sugarman

** To teach is to touch lives forever.
        Anonymous

** 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

** It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
        Albert Einstein

** Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
        Horace Mann

** Whoever first coined the phrase “you're the wind beneath my wings” most assuredly was reflecting on the sublime influence of a very special teacher.
        Frank Trujillo

** Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.
        Ann Lieberman

** Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
        Chinese Proverb

** No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.
        John Carolus S.J.

** One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
        Sophocles

** The secret of education is respecting the pupils.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

** The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.
        Paulo Freire

** You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
        Galielo Galilei

** A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
        Eve Garrison

** 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

** 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 saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
        Paul Wellstone

** I am grateful for the blessing of working in an environment where I can escape all that I cannot understand for a few hours and where I am surrounded with the promises of a bright future.
        Jean Drake

** Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
        Malcolm S. Forbes

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