“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
Phyllis Diller
“I've come to the frightening conclusioin 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 object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
Patricia Neal
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly”
Lola May
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”
Maria Montessori
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren
