TEACHER SOL: Education Quotes 3

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Education Quotes 3

We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.-- Anonymous

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?-- William C. Bagley

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.-- Meladee McCarty

Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion.-- Unknown

Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher.-- Aaron Bacall

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.-- David M. Burns

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.-- Linnaeus

A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.-- Henry Adams

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.-- Mark Twain

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.-- Jane Hamilton