I know, as teachers, we have moments like this when we need a little lift or a little push as we face challenging situations everyday in school and in the classroom. Let me then equip you with a dozen beautiful lines which I have adapted from the book. I trust that you, my dear teachers, will find true inspiration in them.
Start reading, believing, and make them work for you.
- Before beginning your class every day, never forget to say, “The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now.”
- The happiest teachers don’t necessarily have the best students; they just make the best of their every student.
- By teaching your students very well, you are doing a great deed and meeting a dire need.
- Give to your students the best you have and see the best of them coming back to you.
- Looking at my students, I see great educators. Yes, every student is my teacher; I indeed learn something from each of them every day.
- The difference between ordinary teachers and extraordinary ones is that little extra.
- If you want to be truly great in this profession, be great in the eyes of the greatest teacher --- JESUS!
- The greatest quality that any teacher can possess is the ability to get along with different kinds of students. It is a quality worth paying more for than any other.
- There is a word for teachers who won’t correct their students: failure.
- Your good example is your best sermon.
- The most wasted class day is that in which we have not laughed with our students.
- Part of our unwritten responsibilities as teachers is to love our students more than they deserve.
