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Buy Chicken Soup for the Teacher’s Soul: Teacher Tales
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.
50 Quotes for Educators
- “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.” – Unknown
- “They [rocks] 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, he will continue the learning process.” – 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.” – Eugene P. Bertin
- “The student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.” – Eugene P. Bertin
- “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.” Dan Rather
- “Children are 1/3rd 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 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.” Elizabeth Lawrence
- ‘If I have an idea and you 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.” 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 fathr 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