Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.  Dr. Ralph Tyler

 The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.  Grayson Kirk

 Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.  Abigail Adams

 What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher...?  It is to be able to say "the children are now working as if I did not exist".   Maria Montessori

 Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.  Eugene S. Wilson

 A teacher has to be a prophet who can look into the future and see the world of tomorrow into which the children of today must fit.  Anonymous

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  Harold S. Hulbert

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.  Helen Keller

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  Sydney J. Harris

 The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Alvin Toffler

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

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.  Chinese Proverb

All men by nature desire to know.  Aristotle

To teach is to learn twice.  Joseph Joubert

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz

 True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it.  Jill Eggleton

You can’t teach what you don’t understand.  Susan Kovalik

Children have more need of models than of critics.  Carolyn Coats

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.   Aristotle

Most students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment.   Sydney Harris

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -
the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and  to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.  Samuel Johnsons

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

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.   William J. Bennett

 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.  Confucius

 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.  Goethe

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.  Louis Pasteur 

One must be a student before one can be a teacher.  Chinese Proverb

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  James Joyce

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  Edith Ann

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

 Don't worry that children are never listening to you. Worry that they are always watching you.  Robert Fulghum

  The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.  Marva Collins

Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer