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The competent teacher who is truly dedicated to his/her task and students is one of our most valuable citizens. Those who have been keen observers of human society have left behind them a trove of literary gems praising the value of teachers and education. When your work day has been too long, your teaching load too heavy your students super-charged and you are wondering, "Is it worth the effort?" the following lines might lift your drooping spirits.
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul" (J. Addison).
"...the fate of empires depends on the education of youth" (Aristotle).
"It is on the sound education of the people that the security and destiny of every nation chiefly rests" (Kossuth).
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well" (Alexander the Great).
"Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime..." (Lydia Sigourney).
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than even their parents, for these only give them life, those the art of living well" (Aristotle).
These wise observers also described what they perceived to be the mission and purpose of education. These lofty thoughts should be kept fresh in the minds of those privileged to teach the children of America.
"The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit" (Amiel).
"First we shall want the pupil to understand, speak, read and write his mother tongue well" (H. G. Wells).
"Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education" (O'Shea).
"The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it" (Anonymous).
"The true order of learning should be, first, What is necessary; second, What is useful and third, What is ornamental..." (Lydia Sigourney).
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live (J. T. Adams).
"Education is a debt due from the present to future generations" (George Peabody).
Many years after graduating from highschool I went back to visit some of my old teachers. One, now retired and confined to a wheel chair, hugged my neck and exclaimed, "I knew it, I knew it." When I was an antsy, talkative boy in the sixth grade, she knew I would do well in life. I did not know it then. That is why she was my teacher. Like a master sculptor, she saw a rough block of stone and went to work to make an intelligent man who could reach his potential in life. Thank God for teachers. (Quotes from the The New Dictionary of Thoughts by Tyron Edwards, Standard Book Co. 1966).
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