21 inspirational quotes on education, from the Positivity Blog.
I've always liked this one:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B Adams
I'm a children's English school director and materials developer in Tokyo.
Thanks for sharing that, Devon. That's another site for my Google Reader.
These were my favorites, and what I try ("try", indeed) to follow with my job:
"Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand."
Chinese proverb
"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Plato
Best,
Eric
Posted by: Eric Herman | April 23, 2007 at 07:26 AM