What teachers do best is to teach kids to think, to understand, how to learn and where to find information. Teaching to a test designed by some bureaucrat isn't what made our country strong.

If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.