Quotes About Influence

Some people are special cause of what they say or what they do but you are special to me because of the things you've done for me and who you are in my life. Cause just by being there, you've made all the difference.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

If kids come to us [educators teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

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

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.