Teacher Appreciation Quotes
• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living
well.
~ Alexander the Great
• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and
leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
~ Dan Rather
• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom
but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~ Khalil Gibran
• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The
miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”~ Haim Ginott
• Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.
~ Theresa Grimm
• Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
~ Helen Peters
• 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 raw
material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of
the child.
~ Carl Jung
• A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and
wisdom in the pupils.
~Ever Garrison
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.~ William A. Ward
• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework.
~ Lilly Tomlin
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The
human mind is our fundamental resource.~John F. Kennedy
• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
~ Victor Hugo
• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~ Jacques Barzun
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The Secret of Jimmy Yen
A JURY OF DISTINGUISHED scholars and scientists, including Albert
Einstein and Orville Wright thought enough of Jimmy Yen to vote him one of
the top ten Modern Revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century. Yet all he did was
teach Chinese peasants to read.
What made that so amazing was that for four thousand years reading and
writing in China was only done by the Scholars. "Everybody" knew, including
the peasants themselves, that peasants were incapable of learning.
That thoroughly ingrained cultural belief was Jimmy Yen's first "impossible"
barrier. The second barrier was the Chinese language itself, consisting of 40,000
characters, each character signifying a different word! The third barrier was the
lack of technology and good roads. How could Jimmy Yen reach the 350 million
peasants in China?
Impossible odds, an impossibly huge goal-and yet he had almost attained it
when he was forced (by Communism) to leave his country.
Did he give up? No. He learned from defeat and expanded his goal: Teach the
rest of the Third World to read. Practical reading programs, like the ones he
invented in China, started pumping out literate people like a gushing oil well in
the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Kenya, Columbia, Guatemala,
Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ghana, India — people became literate. For the first
time in their entire genetic history, they had access to the accumulated
knowledge of the human race.
For those of us who take literacy for granted, I'd like you to consider for a
moment how narrow your world would be if you'd never learned how to read
and there was no access to radios or TVs.
180,000 Chinese peasants were hired by the Allied Forces in WW1 as laborers in
the war effort. Most of them had no idea- not a clue-where England, Germany
or France was, they didn't know what they were being hired to do, and didn't
even know what a war was!
Jimmy Yen was a savior to them.
What was the secret of Jimmy Yen's success? He found a real need, and found
in himself a strong desire to answer that need. And he took some action: He
tried to do something about it even though it seemed impossible. He worked long
hours. And he started with what he had in front of him and gradually took on
more and more, a little upon a little.
The English author Thomas Carlyle said, "Our main business is not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." And that's what
Jimmy Yen did. He started out teaching a few peasants to read, with no desks,
no pens, no money, no overhead projectors. He started from where he found
himself and did what was clearly at hand.
And that's all you need to do. Start now. Start here. And do what lies clearly at
hand.
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http://www.healingexpressionsbylani.com/pages/InsightEducation2.php
Caregiver Stress - Indicators
Source: Toronto Hospital
Do you have:
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Muscle tightness, back and shoulder aches
Dragging headaches that never go away
Inability to sleep, waking in the night and being unable to get back to sleep,
waking at dawn and lying sleepless for hours
Pains that wander around the body, disappearing from one place only to appear in
another
Stomach, digestive, gastrointestinal problem without real physical cause
Restlessness so that even if you get a chance to rest and relax, you cannot do so
Gritting or grinding your teeth
Numerous small accidents, inability to concentrate
Mood swings, flying off the handle, weeping fits
Increased outbreaks of arthritis, bursitis and any other-itis
Increased reliance upon alcohol to relax, pills to sleep, tranquilizers to calm down
Decreased socialization
Fear of others, "can't-be=bothered" about others, blaming others for everything
Palpitations or chest pains not due to angina or heart trouble
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Inability to carry out the normal tasks of life
Increased forgetfulness, so that you worry about whether you might have
Alzheimer's yourself
Watching television for hours every day, even when you are not actually
interested in the programs
Having a feeling of despair, being overwhelmed, depressed, overanxious
If you can tick off several items, you are suffering from stress and stress kills.
Karen's note: many of these symptoms also indicate depression which should be treated
immediately. I know...it took me too long to figure mine out and do something about it.
http://stress.about.com/od/tensiontamers/a/stressrelievers.htm
http://helpguide.org/mental/stress_relief_meditation_yoga_relaxation.htm
http://www.pdcaregiver.org/Stress_relievers.html