Encouraging Quotes

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  ~K. Patricia Cross

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Adams

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.  ~Victor Hugo

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  ~Karl Menninger

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June and December.  ~ Zac