TRIBUTE TO TEACHERSTRIBUTE TO TEACHERS

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Raul F. Muyong, Ed.D.Raul F. Muyong, Ed.D.

“ The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires”

- Edward Arthur Ward

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

- Gail Godwin

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

- Henry Books Adams

“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

- Author unknown

“A good teacher has been defined as an individual who can understand those who are not good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Great teachers must always love their students; must also be very dedicated to teaching just great students should also be dedicated to learning; must really enjoy teaching; does not cease to dream; always stay young at heart and really likes the students.” ~Confucius

“It is what students do,not what the teachers do,

that determines learning

outcomes.”

-Mckeachie, 1999

“He who ignores discipline despise himself, but whoever heeds corrections gains understanding.”

- Proverbs 15:32

“What I hear, I forget. What I hear and see, I remember. What I do, I understand.”

- Confucius

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there are any kindness I can show or any good I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

- William Penn (1644-1718)

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions.”

- Author Unknown

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

~ Karl Menninger

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads youto the threshold of

your mind.”~Kahlil

Gibran

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”

~Marva Collins

“As mentors, we teach little by what we say; we teach more by what we do; we teach most by what we are.”

~ Cabilangan

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

~ K. Patricia Cross

“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

~Author Unknown

“An unknown teacher keeps the watch along the borders of darkness and leads the attack on the trenches of ignoranceand folly. Patient in his duty,he quickens the indolent, encourages the eager and steadies the unstable.

He communicates his own joy in learning and shares with boys and girls the best treasures of his mind. He lights many candles which in later years will shine back to cheer him. This is his reward.”

~Van Dyke

“It only takes a minute to say a kind word, but the one who hears it will remember it forever.”

~Author Unknown

“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.”

~Author Unknown

Beatitudes for TeachersBlessed are You who are called to teach, for you walk in the footsteps of the Master.Blessed are You who sow peace and harmony in the staffroom, yours will be the joy of the Lord.Blessed are You who plant seeds of hope in youthful hearts, for you will inherit the dawn.Blessed are You who are sensitive to the cries of youth today, for the yearn for the coming of my Kingdom.Blessed are You when you share your faith with others, for your name is written in my heart.Blessed are You who anguish now because your students are difficult, for one day they will thank you for loving concern.Blessed are You when efficiency is moderated by compassion and empathy, for the deeper secret of education is yours.Blessed are You when you reach out to me in your students, for you will surely find me and rejoice.Blessed are you who lead your people in paths of justice and peace, for you will shine like stars for all eternity.

“The schools need great teachers who can work 24 hours a day without thinking of benefits and rewards. As great teachers, our satisfaction does not come from the salaries we are receiving but from the joys that we get when we see our students become successful professionals and responsible citizens of this country.”

~ RFM

A romanticist once said: “There is a nice place in heaven reserved for great teachers… the mansion of the apostles, who target and make disciples of all creations.”

This is a fitting tribute to you. Walk tall! You are a teacher.

Congratulations!