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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teacher Tales: 101 Inspirational Stories from Great Teachers and Appreciative Students is a great book for teachers of all grade levels. I highly recommend it as as a summer reading.
Each story begins with a quote related to the story. I would like to share those quotes with others. Hopefully they are enjoyable and useful.
- “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” Unknown
- “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
- “All I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” Abraham Lincoln
- “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
- “It doesn’t matter. You can still fly, there’s other ways to get around it if you dream.” Kathy Ronci
- “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” Colette
- “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
- “To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert
- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever.” Elizabeth Lawrence
- ‘If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will each have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us has two ideas.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level to make change.” Doug E. Fresh
- “Man is harder than a rock and more fragile than an egg.” Yugoslavian Proverb
- “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.” Author Unknown
- “Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” Author Unknown
- “Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.” John McNaughton
- “All the world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” Martin H. Fischer
- “If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.” Donald Trump
- “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift
- “The giving of love is an education in itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.” Alexander the Great
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” Jacques Barzun
- “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
- “Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.” William Prince
- “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” Gail Devers, 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
- “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” Joyce Brothers
- “We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.” Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
- “Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.” Irvin S. Cobb
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” James A. Garfield
- “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in everyday.” Author Unknown
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the the way for others.” Author Unknown
- “Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.” Lionel Kauffman
- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose.” Woody Allen
- “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” RuPaul
- “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.” Author Unknown
- ‘Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.” Tom Wilson
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay a while and leave footprints on our hearts. & we are never, ever the same.” Anonymous
- “To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.” Phyllis Theroux
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
- “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” Author Unknown
- “The job of a teacher is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.” Joseph Campbell
- “When you are sorrowful look again into your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” Kahil Gibrain
- “We are all special cases.” Albert Camus
- “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement, in real life grows.” Ben Stein
- “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the the things you have long taken for granted.” Bertrand Russell
- “Optimism is the foundation of courage.” Nicholas Murray Butler
- “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
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of a child.” Carl Jung
- “May you live life every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift
- “To free us from the expectations of others. to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” Joan Didion
- “It’s a great day to be alive!”
- “Put your future in good hands, your own.” Author Unknown
- “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
- “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher…awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
- “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” William Shakespeare
- “Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.” Bob Talbert
- “We expect teachers to handle teen pregnancy, abuse, and failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” John Sculley
- “If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, the he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.” Donald D. Quinn
- “Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this task.” Haim Ginott
- “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” Colleen Wilcox
- “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” Paul Boese
- “Anger is short-lived madness.” Horace
- “I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.” William H. Mauldin
- “To often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring. all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia
- “We only part to meet again.” John Gay
- “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
- “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” Thomas Carruthers
- “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” Ever Garrison
- “Many things grow in a garden that were never sown.” Thomas Fuller
- “Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.” Helen Peters
- “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” John Lennon
- “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” Robert Frost
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
- “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” Betty Bender
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” Gerald Good
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
- “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” Brooks Atkinson
- “And in today already walks tomorrow.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” Author Unknown
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
- “I can live two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain
- “In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for 20 years.” Jacques Barzun
- “Mighty things from small beginnings grown.” John Dryden
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca
- “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” Plato