Inspired to Inspire

Some days we all feel down, especially when looking for a job. We wonder if we picked the right field, the right degree, the right reasons. We wonder if were capable of doing the job we chose, if were going to be happy and some times we start to lose hope. Sometimes we need a little something to push us to keep going. Here are some inspirational quotes for teachers or teachers to be to help you keep your eye on the prize and remember why you got into teaching in the first place.

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them -feel." --- Carol Buchner

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation." -- John F. Kennedy

"Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners." -- Ken Blanchard

"A very wise old teacher once said: "I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh." He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying

its existence." -- Gilbert Highet

"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in." -- Rachel Carlson

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." -- Carl Jung

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin

and last but not least...

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- Forest Witcraft

By Jodi Sonoda

Jodi has been blogging for over 3 years, and is excited to currently be blogging with Nexxt for collegejobbank.com, realestatejobsite.com and educationjobsite.com. She is attached to the internet at the hip and enjoys the constant connection. She spends most of her offline time playing dolls and reading picture books with her two year old. You can also occasionally find her rocking the mic at karaoke night.