Quotes About Guidance

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

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.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

A word to the wise isn't necessary,it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need expert advice!

I now know how uncomfortable most parents have it when they're having the sex talk with their children.

If you dont know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.