T he ABC's   of Teaching


A is for the abundance of questioning and yearning.
B is for both inward and outward beauty.
C is for creative learning.
D is for doing until it's right.
E is for the effort put into preparing each night.
F is for watching how far we can go.
G is for seeing us blossom and grow.
H is for reaching for that star so high.
I is for the imagination, the courage to try.
J is for joy in touching a child's life in a meaningful way.
K is for kindness you bring children each day.
L is for the love of teaching we see.
M is for the "me" you're helping me to be.
N is for never being too busy to pray.
O is for overcoming our desire to stray.
P is for positives you bring to each day.
Q is for the quintessential way to teach.
R is for your willingness to give us a reason.
S is for teaching us to appreciate each season.
T is for touching those that sit before you.
U is for understanding our fear of all that is new.
V is for the vitality you show each day.
W is for every wonderment you bring our way.
X is for the extra special teacher you see.
Y is for our yearning sense to be.
Z is for the big "Yahoo!" heard from our very own zoo.
~ Author Unknow

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon."
~ Anonymous

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



"Children learn to smile from their parents."
~ Shinichi Suzuki


"I hear, and I forget.
I see, and I remember.
I do, and I understand."
~ Chinese Proverb
"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student."
~ Marva Collins

"It doesn't take a big person to carry a grudge."
~ Author Unknown

"Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion."
~ Unknown

"A teacher's compassion is like a pebble thrown into a pool of water. The ripples spread far beyond the point of impact."
~ Dear Abby

"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 Godwin

"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
"Education is not learned from books; It is imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."
~ Cesar Chavez

"Learning is not a spectator sport."
~ Anonymous

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
~ William Arthur Ward
What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand."
~ Confucius

"The good teacher has a profession. The master teacher has a PASSION."
~ Jacquie McTaggart


"Learning is a treasure that cannot be lost."
~ Jacquie McTaggart


"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
~ Bruce Barton

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
~ John Lubbock

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
~ Claus Moser


"A great teacher never strives to explain her vision: she simply invites you to stand beside her and see for yourself."
~ Rev. R. Inman


"Information is pretty thin stuff unless it's mixed with experience."
~ Clarence Day

"What we learn to do, we learn by doing."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
~ Norman Douglas


"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence."
~ Robert Frost

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
~ Chinese Proverb

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
~ B.B. King

"Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open."
~ Author unknown

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
~ Robert Fulghum
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
~ Dave Barry


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
~ Socrates

" I am not a teacher- only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as of you".
~ George Bernard Shaw


"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
~ Oscar Wilde

"The heart of education is the education of the heart."
~ John Nkemnji

"First-rate teachers do more than illuminate; they inspire."
~ Jacquie McTaggart

"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."
~ Chinese Proverb

"Into each day some joy finds its way into my life. On this occasion my cup runneth over."
~ Hazel Grant

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings."
~ Hodding Carter Jr.

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
~ Evan Esar

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

--William Butler Yeats

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

--Benjamin Franklin

"A teacher affects eternity."

--Henry Adams

"Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." 

--Thomas Carruthers

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." 

--Chinese Proverb

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't...you're right!" 

--Henry Ford

“We must be the change we seek in the world.”

--Ghandi

"My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed."

--Anne Sullivan

"If you can dream it, you can do it."
--Walt Disney

"If your plan is for one year, plant rice;
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees;
If your plan is for a hundred years,
Educate children."

-- Confucius

"It takes a whole village to raise a child.'"

--African saying

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." 

--George Washington Carver

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." 

--Mary McLeod Bethune

"Yesterday's history,
Tomorrow's a mystery,
Today is a gift,
That's why we call it the present."

--Unknown

"If you promise not to believe everything your child

says happens at this school, I’ll promise not to

believe everything he says happens at home."

--Note to students’ parents from an English schoolmaster

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please."

--Mark Twain

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" 

--Albert Einstein

 "There are three ways to teach a child. The first by example. The second is by example. The third is by example."

 --Albert Schweitzer

"Genius without education is like silver in a mine." 

--Benjamin Franklin

"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

--Stacia Tauscher

"The only things children wear out faster than shoes are parents and teachers."

--Unknown

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

--Yogi Bera

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

--Will Rogers

"The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates.

The great teacher inspires."

--William Arthur Ward

"Knowledge comes; but wisdom lingers."

--Tennyson

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

--Henry Ford

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."

--Lee Iacocca

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

--Mahatma Ghandi

"...from the stars and the sun and the moon should man learn."

--Eagle Chief (Letakots-Lesa)

Pawnee Leader

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

--Aristotle

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

--Carl W. Buechner

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

Japanese Proverb

 "Everyone has the power for greatness. Not for fame, but for greatness. Because greatness is determined by service."

Martin Luther King Jr.

 "Don't worry that children never listen to you.  Worry that they are always watching you."  Robert Fulghum, 20th-century American author

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement." - Rita Mae Brown

All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. -
 Holt's Law

  "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)

A Message of Thanks
to All the Great Teachers
 in This World

Thank you for being such wonderful teachers, exemplary roles models, and caring people. Thank you for knowing your subjects and sharing your knowledge. Thank you for not being afraid to treat students like real people. Thank you for showing acceptance, approval, and appreciation. These are all gifts that your students will always remember, just as they will also remember you.

Words of encouragement a little respect, and simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for students to study, learn, and grow. Your attitude translates into a spirit of friendliness and good will toward others in a sometimes unfriendly world. Progress is easier in an atmosphere of creative freedom, joy, and ease, and you foster this feeling in your classroom.

I salute the good work you've done. I appreciate the people you are, and I thank you for your positive influence. You have passed on invaluable instruction and wisdom and created pleasurable moments associated with learning that will always be sweet memories.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched. Every community needs people like you. Your contributions are immeasurable. Your lessons are permanent. You improve our world. You are so important.
~ Donna Fargo

When I was fresh out of college and just starting out as a teacher I was slapped with the reality that teaching is MUCH more than just working with students and enlightening their lives with knowledge.  It is also mounds of paperwork, long nights of planning, and, dealing with undesirable behaviors from students and sometimes even their parents.   It's hard.  It's stressful.  And, sometimes you feel like giving up.  But then you find a poem or memento that reminds you why you're here.  Or, if you lucky, you get to experience that warm feeling inside when a child gets it and you know you've made a difference in THAT life.   At that moment you remember, "This is why I'm here.  This is what my hard work is for."  It's these little moments that give meaning to what I do. It's these moments that remind me, "Come rain or shine, I am proud that I am a teacher."         What is a Teacher? A teacher is someone who sees each child as a unique person and encourages individual talents and strengths. A teacher looks beyond each child's face and sees inside their souls. A teacher is someone with a special touch and a ready smile who takes the time to listen to both sides and always tries to be fair. A teacher has a caring heart that respects and understands. A teacher is someone who can look past disruption and rebellion, and recognize hurt and pain. A teacher teachers the entire child and helps to build confidence and raise self-esteem. A teacher makes a difference in each child's life and affects each family and the future of us all. ~ Barbara Cage       To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard   "Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way." ~ George Evans   "All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others." ~ Michael Carr   "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   "There is a brilliant child locked inside every student." ~ Marva Collins   "A teacher's compassion is like a pebble thrown into a pool of water. The ripples spread far beyond the point of impact." ~ Dear Abby   "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." ~ Gail Godwin   "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   "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~ William Arthur Ward   "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." ~ John Lubbock     "A great teacher never strives to explain her vision: she simply invites you to stand beside her and see for yourself." ~ Rev. R. Inman     We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box. ~ Robert Fulghum     Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry   Children need your presence more than your presents. ~ Jesse Jackson   "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings." ~ Hodding Carter Jr.   Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. ~ Wilferd A. Peterson   One Hundred Years From Now One Hundred Years from now  It will not matter  what kind of car I drove,  What kind of house I lived in,  how much money was in  my bank account  nor what my clothes looked like.  But the world may be a better place because  I was important in the life of a child.   All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. ~ Earvin "Magic" Johnson   Teachers Teachers come and go but every so often one comes along that you'll always remember. One who makes learning an adventure... and who can still remember what it is like to be young and growing up... The kind who can make you want to be the very best you can be... Someone you can really talk to, who really cares about what happens to you... That person is YOU! ~Author Unknown~   '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   No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.  The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.  -Emma Golmam   WHY GOD CREATED 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. ~Author Unknown~

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