Educational Quotes
As educators, we must remember that our teaching and learning experience is on-going. We must always be striving to improve, for both ourselves and for our students. Teaching and learning cooperatively with other professionals is essential to progressing our development. Below you can read and watch quotes and speeches that have inspired, influenced and changed my perspective on teaching and learning in the education profession.
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates climate. it is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we male them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Haimn Ginott
Every Kid Needs A Champion
"Children don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are." - Jim Henson
"If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important." -Barbara Colorose
"Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Anonymous
"As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say." - Anonymous
GRIT!