Enjoy Summer Break!

As we all get ready for the joys and fun of summer break, below are some inspirational and provocative quotes about teaching and teachers.

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way (George Evans)

Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. (Plato)

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human being and to feel successful. Teaching cognitive skills is not enough. (Jean Medick)

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. (Robert Hutchins)

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. (Anonymous)

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. (Chinese Proverb)

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. (Alec Bourne)

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. (Gail Goodwin)

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. (Confucius)

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted. (Linda Conway)

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand...what he learns and the way he understands it. (Soren Kierkegaard)

A word as the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher. (Cesar Chavez)

The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller)

You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. (Clay Bedford)

Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The important thing is to never stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonsrates. The great teacher inspires. (William Arthur Ward)

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. (Alexander Dumas)

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (Abraham Maslow)

And my favorite--even though it's questionable that W. B. Yeats wrote or said it:

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.

Enjoy the summer!