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Inspirational Quotes Activity

The document provides a list of inspirational quotes for teachers to select from for a reflection activity. Teachers are instructed to choose 4 quotes and write at least a 150-word paragraph on how each quote inspires their teaching. The list contains over 30 quotes attributed to various authors, educators, and religious figures about the importance and impact of teaching.

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Inspirational Quotes Activity

The document provides a list of inspirational quotes for teachers to select from for a reflection activity. Teachers are instructed to choose 4 quotes and write at least a 150-word paragraph on how each quote inspires their teaching. The list contains over 30 quotes attributed to various authors, educators, and religious figures about the importance and impact of teaching.

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ACTIVITY

Select 4 quotes from the provided list. Following the quote, write
a one-paragraph reflection on how this quote inspires your
teaching. (150 words min. per response)

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


stops.
Henry Adams

Teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right


answers.
Josef Albers

You cant direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
Anonymous

We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a
sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we
remember with a deep sense of gratitude.
Anonymous

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in


themselves.
Joseph Campbell

It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a


spark.
Anatole France

An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even


how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you
do know and what you dont.
Anatole France
Memory is the link to the past. But for the sake of the future, memory
is for Jew as air for the human being.
--Elie Wiesel

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a


doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet

To teach is to learn twice.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles

Joseph Joubert, Penses, 1842

A persons every act begins with a dream and ends with one.
Theodor Herzl

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a


teacher.
Elbert Hubbard

The parent brings the child into the life of this world, whereas the
teacher, who teaches him wisdom, brings him into the life of the world
to come.
Talmud, Baba Metziah 33a
Everyone can raise himself, but only by his actions.
--Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and
remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a
decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverb

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he


learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Education without vision is like a present without a future.


P. Shifman

The advancement of learning is the highest commandment.


Maimonides
The real gaurdians of a state are the teachers.
--Tamlud

What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text
people. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the
pupils read; the text they will never forget
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Educate children in the way they should go, and even when they are
old, they will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Make for yourself a teacher; acquire for yourself a friend.
--Pirkei Avot

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can


change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Education is not a product: makrs, diploma, job, moneyin that order;
it is a process, a never-ending one.

--Kaufman

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live


forever.
Mahatma Ghandi

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shammai taught: make a fixed time for study; say little and do much;
and greet each person with a cheerful face.
--Pirkei Avot

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men


and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating
what other generations have done; men and women who are creative,
inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not
accept, everything they are offered.
Jean Piaget
One who is engaged in attending to the needs of the community is
just like one who is engaged in Torah study.
Anonymous
Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his sons
sson and so on to the end of generations.
--Talmud

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