The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.~William Arthur Ward
"To teach is to learn twice."~Joseph Joubert
"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."~George Bernard Shaw
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.~Eugene P. Bertin
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
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.~Jacques Barzun
WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING (Mary Rita Schilke Korzan)
When you thought I wasn't looking, you displayed my first report, and
I wanted to do another.
When you thought I wasn't looking, you fed a stray cat, and I thought it was
good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn't looking, you gave me a sticker, and I knew that
little things were special things.
When you thought I wasn't looking, you put your arm around me, and I felt
loved.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned
that sometimes things hurt--but that it's all right to cry.
When you thought I wasn't looking, you smiled, and it made me want to look
that pretty too.
When you thought I wasn't looking, you cared, and I wanted to be everything
I could be.
When you thought I wasn't looking--I looked...and wanted to say thanks for
all those things you did when you thought I wasn't looking.
Why God Made Teachers
When God created teachers,
He gave us special friends
To help us understand His world
And truly comprehend
The beauty and the wonder
Of everything we see,
And become a better person
With each discovery.
When God created teachers,
He gave us special guides
To show us ways in which to grow
So we can all decide
How to live and how to do
What's right instead of wrong,
To lead us so that we can lead
And learn how to be strong.
Why God created teachers,
In His wisdom and His grace,
Was to help us learn to make our world
A better, wiser place.
Teachers (Kevin William Huff)
Paint their minds
and guide their thoughts
Share their achievements
and advise their faults
Inspire a Love of knowledge and truth
As you light the path
Which leads our youth
For our future brightens with each lesson you teach
Each smile you lengthen
Each goal you help reach
For the dawn of each poet each philosopher and king
Begins with a Teacher
And the wisdom they bring
Teacher's Prayer
Lord, Please help me,
To strengthen their voices,
bodies and minds,
To express their feelings and
control them sometimes,
To explore what's near
and venture afar,
But most important to love
who they are.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.~Author Unknown
Top Ten Reasons to Become a Preschool Teacher
1. Cute little children......cute little paycheck.
2. Confidence that you will nenver, ever forget to count to 10.
3. Attention span.......Do they have one?
4. Shoes that untie themselves.
5. Get to sing your favorite songs; over and over, and over.
6. With all this bending, who needs aerobics?
7. Play, play, play.
8. Classroom art displayed in kitchen "galleries".
9. Small hands......LARGE crayons.
10. You alone make little ones count.
