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There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

The only thing more costly than education is ignorance.

To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters How do I act

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.

Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

What comes first, the compass or the clock Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives

Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say, or how to ask for what we really need.

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it if unfair, keep from irritation if it is ignorant, smile if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones it all depends on how we use them.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.