by Shilpa Garg
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Teachers Then
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Teachers Now
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| Ah! There you have the worst paid and the best rewarded of vocations. Do not enter it unless you love it. For the vast majority of men and women it has no promise of wealth and fame, but they to whom it is dear for its own sake are among the nobility of mankind. Henry Von Dyke | It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw |
| What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl Menninger | Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun |
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. Author Unknown  |
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. John Sculley |
| To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. Anonymous | Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates |
| More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. Bertrand Russell | The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero |
| 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 | We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. John Carolus S. J. |
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. Anonymous  |
Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. John F. Kennedy |
| Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. Confucius | Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert Einstein |
| Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw | I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. Dr. Haim Ginott |
| The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Kahlil Gibran | If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. Barbara Colorose |
| A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank…but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child. Forest Witchcraft | A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann |
| We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude. Author Unknown |
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John Gardner |
| Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. Aristotle. | We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them. Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| It’s blood, sweat, sometimes tears. Bob Hayes | Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. R.C. Savage |
| The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. Author Unknown | For many students, their teachers may be the only adult with whom they have a meaningful conversation all day. Vickie Gill |
| Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission. Dr. Ralph Tyler | It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. George Horace Lorimer |
| An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung | I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility. Howard Lester |
| Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don’t create a Master Teacher — that’s already been done. You discover your Master Teacher. Peter Mcwilliams | It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
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