Teacher's Prayer: 

I want to teach my students how to live this life on Earth. 

To face its struggles and its strife and to improve their worth. 

Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow,

But how to choose the proper path wherever they may go. 

To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong,

And gather all the beauty of a flower and a song. 

For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace,

Then I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place. 

And so I ask your guidance, God, that I may do my part. 

For character and confidence and happiness of heart.

-James J. Metcalf

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when  you will be grateful you did. -Sarah Caldwell

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. -Latin Proverb

Learning is not a spectator sport. -Donald Blocher

The important thing is to never stop questioning. -Albert Einstein, American physicist

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. -Tyron Edwards

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. -Margaret Mead

I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think. -Socrates

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. -Bob Talbert

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. -Albert Einstein

Teachers open the door.  You enter by yourself. -Chinese proverb

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.  -William Feather, 20th-century American writer

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. -Mark Twain

If you want to get laid, go to college.  If you want an education, go to the library. -Frank Zappa, American composer, guitarist, satirist and song writer, 1940-1993

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. -Bill Cosby

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. -Fred Astaire

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation.  What they mean is that we go to school longer.  It is not the same thing. -Richard Yates

And so, when we speak of 'ready to learn,' what we really mean is...successfully preparing all children for school. -Ernest L. Boyer

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -Vernon Law

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational. -Charles Schulz

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. -Bradley Millar

To learn is to change.  Education is a process that changes the learner. -George B. Leonard

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. -Margaret Mead

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

Children start school as question marks and leave as periods. -Neil Postman

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires. –William Arthur Ward

All learning begins with the simple phrase, "I don't know".

It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted that really counts.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

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

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

Reporter: "How did you like school when you were growing up, Yogi?"
Yogi Berra: "Closed."

Do you think that illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Teachers have class.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

To teach well, we need not say all that we know, only what is useful for the pupil to hear.

Be careful what you know...you might have to teach it one day.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

To teach is to learn.

To teach is to touch lives forever.