Tea Quotes
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.Barbara Colorose
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
Good teaching is one - Fourth preparation and three - Fourths theater.Gail Godwin
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.John Cotton Dana
Tell me.... And I Forget, Teach me..... And I Learn, Involve Me..... And I Remember.Benjamin Franklin, Card
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can? t teach someone who writes columns to care.Ellen Goodman
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.Maria Montessori
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.Lord Byron
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.Jim Boulton
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.Andre Bernard Buruch
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.Unknown
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Euripides, Alexande
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.Cecil B. DeMille
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.Albert Einstein
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
To teach is to learn twice.Jeseph Joubert
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.Bob Conklin
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
