Quotation on Teachers 4

Here's another series of ten thoughts for our meditation during our quiet moments. A fringe benefit of being a school teacher is the long holidays that we enjoy. We deserve it because teaching can be a pretty stressful job. Quotation 43 can be adapted to fit our Malaysian school holidays which consist of a total of two and a half months of holidays. Enjoy!

41
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown

42
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana


43
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown


44
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz

45
To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842

46
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown

47
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ~Marva Collins

48
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard

49
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. ~Peter Drucker

50
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott