Teachers

If kids come to us [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.
- Barbara Colorose

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
- Dan Rather

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
- Horace Mann, 1796 - 1859

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
- Maria Montessori, 1870 - 1952

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

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
- William Osler, 1848 - 1919