Life is a journey, and as educators, we play a vital role in shaping young lives. These quotes offer inspiration, reflection, and a reminder of the profound impact we have.
The Power of Teaching
"Life is so short and we need to make the most of every minute we can. Live your best life with those who bring you joy."
Kyrstie Stubbs
"Teachers don’t do well with uncertainty. There’s something about the reassuring ring of the bell that tells us everything is in its place."
Elisabeth Bowling
"Smile every day and love the children, love the community, and respect every member of staff in the team. Teaching is the greatest job in the world."
Chris Dyson
"There are lots of great jobs you can do in society, but none of them are quite as great, or quite as important, or as profound as the life of a teacher."
Doug Lemov
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire."
W.B. Yeats
"The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important."
Simon Sinek
"We become leaders the day we decide to help people grow, not numbers."
Simon Sinek
"A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
"The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach."
Dylan Wiliam
"Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."
Rita Pierson
Leadership and Professional Growth
"Some lessons will be better than others, at different times, on different days. We are continually striving towards creating a culture whereby improving is not seen as a deficit. It is seen as a natural enactment of a professional learning community that recognises that Teaching is Learning."
Mark Healy
"Leadership is always about people."
Simon Sinek
"The goal is not to be perfect by the end, the goal is to be better today."
Simon Sinek
"Teaching, it turns out, is a team sport, where teachers make each other better fastest by building culture & sharing insights."
Doug Lemov
"Senior Leaders should never lose sight of what it is to be a full-time class teacher."
Samuel Strickland
"Education system needs to be more flexible, creative, and resilient. That requires smarter professional collaboration and stronger student engagement across the system."
Pasi Sahlberg
"After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching...is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented."
Lee Shulman
"Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better."
Dylan Wiliam
"Instead of seeking bold ideas, grand ideas, creative ideas, or group commitment, we should be doing just the opposite: studying our practices closely and deliberately, deepening our understanding of the circumstances in which we work, and finding small and sustainable ways to improve."
Mary Kennedy
"For change to succeed, leaders need to focus as much, if not more, on understanding the practices they wish to change as on designing the alternatives they seek to introduce. My reason for this claim is that the hardest part of change is not planning but its implementation because that involves the uncertain and complex process of integrating and aligning the new practices with hundreds of existing practices."
Viviane Robinson
The Purpose of Education
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
Margaret Mead
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Curriculum development is a long-haul task, but a beautiful one, and an ethically focused curriculum, carefully crafted, will mean the children and the staff and families and the planet will reap the benefits for years to come."
Katie Smith
"The principal 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."
Jean Piaget
"Curriculum is like a suitcase. Every time you put something in, you have to take something out."
John Davies
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."
William J. Bennett
"Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development."
J. S. Bruner
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