January
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.” Unknown
- “What a teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Karl Menninger
- “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
- “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Chinese Proverb
- “Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” Eugene P. Bertin
- “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
- “Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.” Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health 1981
- “Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” Phyllis Theroux
- “Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.” Michael Burke
- “Christmas is not as much about opening presents as opening our hearts.” Janice Maeditere
- “There can never be enough said of virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” Francoise Sagan
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather
- “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” Mary Manin Morrissey
- “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” Ertha Kitt
- “Words can sometimes, in moments of grace of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” Eli Wiesel
- “The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.” Will Smith
- “He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” John Cotton Dana
- “A child can ask questions a wise man cannot answer.” Author Unknown
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
- “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
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” John Updike
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” Ray LeBlond