To teachers everywhere. You have heard it a thousand times:"It takes a village to raise a child." Children need years of positive influence from many adults to reach their full potential. Teachers are a substantial part of that positive influence. Teachers leave a lifelong effect on children, and oftentimes even spend more time with children then their parents.
You are their guiding North star, the instructor that is shaping this planet's future. But when you're up to your neck in papers to grade, and the espresso just ain't helping like it used to, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees. Here are a few powerful motivational quotes to help you see the beauty of your work. Keep your focus on the larger picture and remember why you chose this in the first place. Feel free to split the images if you prefer.
"Teachers who are crazy enough to think they could change the world usually do." - Author unknown
The future is in your hands today. The world becomes better because of your impact.
"Every kid is one caring adult from being a success story."
Imagine what type of planet we would have if each child had someone to help them reach their untapped potential.
"Our job is to educate the students we have. Not the ones we would love to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have.
Ok so not all humans are created equal, but all of them have potential to do amazing things.
"We expect teachers to reach unattainable goals with inadequate resources. The wonder is this: they frequently do."
You are a superhero with no cape.
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle
It looks like almost a no brainer, but we should always enforce kindness as much as grammar.
"One kid, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
That teacher is you.
"You might not see the fruit of today's work but you've seeded a life of knowledge."
Never take for granted the little things you teach, they could impact a child for many years to come. My fourth grade teacher advised me to question everything I do, 20 years later I still live by this and it has made me a wiser person
"There is no greater reward than working from your heart, and making a difference in the world."
Teachers who teach from the heart remain with people forever. Thank you!
"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions." - Author Unknown
Nobody would be here reading this right now without an amazing teacher like you. From learning to read to performing heart surgery, all is possible thanks to a teacher!
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce themfor these only gave them life, those the art of living well." --Aristotle
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More Effective Teacher Estimates We Love
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - BB King
"We teachers are rather good at magic, you know." - J.K. Rowling
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers." - Author unknown
"What's done to children, they will do to society." - Karl Menninger
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." - Edward Everett
"There is but one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that's by making the other person want to do it." - Dale Carnegie
- Victor Hugo
"A good teacher is a doctor who heals ignorance and an artist that inspires creativity" - Author unknown
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation."
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. - Jim Rohn
"The scientific mind doesn't so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Education isn't the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butlet Yeats
"The faculty is the final expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
"Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers." - Author unknown
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open." - Frank Zappa
"If you can not explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"I will venture to maintain that where the instructor isn't pleasing to the student, there isn't any education." - Xenophon
"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much your care" - Anonymous
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." - Confucius
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn" - Benjamin Franklin
"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr.Seuss
"It takes a big heart to help shape small minds." - Unknown
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato
"I never teach my students. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
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