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Listen Along Story Book Podcast by Tara Valentine media type="custom" key="8863998" "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//

"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three." //--Confucius//

"We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them." //-- Jean Jacques Rousseau//

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded." //-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery//



"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//

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." //-- Nikos Kazantzakis//

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

"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee." -- //Ralph Waldo Emerson//

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- //Henry Brooks Adams//

"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn." -- //Latin Proverb//



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"To every young person listening tonight who's contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you."-- //President Obama// ======

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."//-- Malcolm Forbe//

"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualification, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?" -- //Harriet Martineau//

"I touch the future. I teach." -- //Christa McAuliffe//