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 raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung
Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know. -R. Verdi
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of 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, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. -Donald D. Quinn
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. -Tracy Kidder
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
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. -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
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. -Louis A. Berman
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. -Bob Talbert
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