Kids don’t fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
I’m a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
You can pay people to teach, But you can’t pay them to care.
I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
There isn’t a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment.
Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
Until kids decide, ‘I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,’ they can never draw the conclusion, ‘Because I’m a miracle, I will never harm another person who’s a miracle like me.’ In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.
If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.
Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
Everything works when the teacher works. It’s as easy as that, and as hard.
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.