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Teachers and teaching

«If kids come to us [educators / teachers] 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.»
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
«It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.»
«If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.»
«In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.»
«In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college»
«If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.»
«It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.»
«It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.»
«It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.»

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