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CAT Tracks for May 13, 2009
TEACHER APPRECIATION QUOTES |
Okay, "going in" to negotiations yesterday, I tried to keep my spirits up with my (off) brand of humor.
After sitting through four hours of wheel spinning last night...no humor remains in this old cat carcass. And, venting? Why...been there, done that...and it don't change a thing. (Pardon my colloquialism!)
But...
That's why I save things that loyal CAT Tracks readers send me..."nicey-nice" things to fill the dark void that is Cairo School District Number One...something to raise teacher morale that is repeatedly stomped on by District officials.
So, for today...as you continue to toil in the trenches...without contract...unappreciated...read what others have said throughout history about you and your profession.
DISCLAIMER: Okay, some of the quotes below are NOT flattering...are more like what you would hear from an administrator or a hired presenter on an SIP day. Wouldn't want you to get too "pumped up" only to get slapped down...again. Most of them, however, will provide an antidote for the insults that frequent your life.
Enjoy...and have a good day!!!
Teacher Appreciation Quotes
It should be recognised that the proper status of teachers and due public regard for the profession of teaching are of major importance.”
“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.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.”
“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”
“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
“Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.”
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.”
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.”
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
“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.”
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.”
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.”
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“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.”
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”
“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”
“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
“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.”
“Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”
“If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.”
“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”
“A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
“There are three good reasons to be a teacher: June, July, and August.”
”Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.”
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
“A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
“A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”
"By viewing the old we learn the new."
"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."
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves."
"When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, 'Not to unlearn what you have learned!'"
"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
"The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning."
"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots."
"Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number."
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."
"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."
"A good teacher is a good student first. By repeating his lessons, he acquires excellence."
"My coach is like a teacher, my former manager was like a drill sergeant."
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."
"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know."
UNESCO (Art. 5 of 1996 Recommendation)
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Khalil Gibran
Aristotle
Aristotle
Cato
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
Plato
Plutarch
Alexander the Great
Henry Adams
Helen Peters
Soren Kierkegaard
Andy McIntyre
Robert M. Hutchins
Victor Hugo
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
H.G. Wells
Theresa Grimm
William A. Ward
Malcolm Forbes
Gail Godwin
Carl Jung
Lilly Tomlin
James A. Garfield
Helen Keller
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun
William Prince
Wilson Mizner
Patricia Neal
Mark van Doren
Dan Rather
Haim Ginott
Marva Collins
Patricia Cross
Joseph Joubert
John C. Dana
Amos Alcott
The Talmud
Bob Talbert
Louis Berman
Donald Quinn
Tracy Kidder
Michael Balkers
Karl Kraus
Thomas Carruthers
Chinese proverb
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Chinese Proverb
Anonymous student
Joseph Campbell
Diogenes Laertius
Horace Mann
C.B. Neblette
K. Patricia Cross
Victor Hugo
Karl Menninger
Thurgood Marshall
Author Unknown
Gail Godwin
Carl Jung
M. K. Soni
Goodbye Manager, Hello Coach
Josef Albers
Colleen Wilcox
Carl Von Linne
R. Verdi