We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion for all that parents ever wanted really was for you to love their child the way they did

school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

Teaching is a calling too And I ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.