Quotable Quotes about Teaching...

Why I teach?

Being a teacher is not just about teaching. A teacher is one who shapes, creates and mould lives.
It is about breathing life into the pages of textbooks and weaving magic into them everyday.
It is about inspiring curious young minds and recognising raw talent, challenging them to think beyond mere words.
It is about cultivating the thirst for knowledge that may be found in abundance between the covers of books but which can only be brought to life by a teacher.
Teaching is not one job, its many.
In fact, no other career matches the unique opportunities, challenges and satisfaction you will experience as a teacher.
Being a teacher entails being a role-model to his/her students.
Indeed, teachers play an important role in helping to inculcate in their students, sound moral values and strength of character.
Our students learn through participating in co-curricular activties and engaging in social interactions in school, at home and with their friends.
Teachers, together with parents and the community, are all partners in the process of nurturing the younger generation.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

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To a mind of flint, the teacher must be iron, and strike sparks.
To the empty pitcher, the teacher becomes a well.
To the fallow mind, a planter of seeds.
To the cluttered mind, a gardener to weed, shape, and clear a space for growing.

To the lens, the teacher is light, and to the mind of light, a lens.
To the sleeper, the teacher is the wake-up call of birds at sunrise.
To clay, the teacher is potter, sculptor, and trainer in self-shaping.
To the wanderer, the teacher is a knowing guide.

To the developed mind, the teacher is colleague, listener, and friend.
To all, the teacher is a mirror that shows not only the self but the path and its choices, the task and its demands -- the difficulties, the joys.
To all and from all, the teacher is a learner, a person -- and a prism through which the ordinary continuously reveals itself to be miraculous.

Gerald Grow

For all Educators

The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad.... Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow.