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Affects

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

Henry B. Adams

Amuse the mind

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

Apply

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca

Autograph

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Unknown

Awakening

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Be Ready

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

Be nice

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Thumper's father (Bambi 1942)

Bigger than ...

Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.

Sharon Feiman-Nemser

Brilliance

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Marva Collins

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Challenge

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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