I’ll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher. Dave Burgess
Category: Teacher Quote of the Week
EduQuote of the Week | 4.15.19
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn’t come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some…
EduQuote of the Week | 4.1.19
Never compare one student’s test score to another’s. Always measure a child’s progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual–not to be more special than the kid sitting next to…
EduQuote of the Week | 3.25.19
Teach people to fish, but first teach people to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything. Suzy Kassem
EduQuote of the Week | 3.18.19
When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. Anne Lamott
EduQuote of the Week | 3.11.19
… be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness… Ann Voskamp
EduQuote of the Week | 3.4.19
Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf
EduQuote of the Week | 2.25.19
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. Mae Jamison
EduQuote of the Week | 2.18.19
We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort. Jesse Owens
EduQuote of the Week | 2.11.19
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. Coretta Scott King