Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn’t-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.
Kids don’t fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.