Great Quotes for Great Educators

Dale Lumpa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317926207
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Over 600 insightful, witty nuggets to motivate and inspire you and everyone else at your school. Teachers, display these quotes in your classrooms! Administrators, insert them into your faculty memos and share them at staff meetings! Why is this book unique? It includes over 100 original quotes from internationally acclaimed speaker and educator Todd Whitaker, features real quotes from real students which echo wit and wisdom for educators, and each quote has a direct connection to your life as an educator.

1	The Most Important Profession

Great teachers are made one student at a time.

—Todd Whitaker

Those who love the young best stay young longest.

—Edgar Friedenberg

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

Those who can, teach; those who can’t, go into some other much less significant line of work.

—Todd Whitaker

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

—Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible.

—David Haselkorn

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

—Winston Churchill

You must learn, you can learn, you will learn. The fact that you have not yet learned means that I have not yet found the way to explain the subject so simply, so clearly, and so exactly that it is impossible for you not to understand. But I will find the way. I will not quit on you.

—Author unknown

Teaching matters.

—Todd Whitaker

To the world you might be just one person; but to just one person, you might be the world.

—Author unknown

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

—Henry Brooke Adams

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

—William James

I touch the future, I teach.

—Christa McAuliffe

There is a giant asleep within every man. When the giant awakes, miracles happen.

—Frederick Faust

A good teacher has a love of teaching. A great teacher has a love of learning.

—Todd Whitaker

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems—the answer for all the problems of the world—comes to a single word. That word is education...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Meet the Authors
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• 1 The Most Important Profession
• 2 Great Teaching Makes Great Students
• 3 Students—The Core of Every Apple
• 4 Learning for Life
• 5 The Gift of Literacy
• 6 If at First You Don’t Succeed
• 7 Managing with Class
• 8 R-E-S-P-E-C-T
• 9 Leading the Learning
• 10 The Winds of Change
• 11 Teamwork—Together We Can Do It All