Thoughts About Teaching

1. Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
2.  One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
3. True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
4. Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
5. Teachers who love teaching they teach children to love learning.
6. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
7.  Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
8. Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
9. Teacher takes a big heart to teach little minds.
10. A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, & touches a heart.
11. The best teachers are those who teach us where to look but not what to see.
12. Teachers plant the seeds of knowledge that will grow forever.
13. To the world you may be just a teacher but to your students you are a hero.
14. The influence of a good teacher can never be erased.
15. A good teacher is like a candle it consumes itself to light the way for others.
16. We can teach from experience, but we cannot teach experience.
17. Experience is the teacher of all things.
18. No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
19. Experience is the hardest kind of teacher, it gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. 
20. Teaching is a work of heart.
21. Teaching Kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
22. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
23. It shouldn't matter how slowly a child learns as long as we are encouraging them not to stop.