The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross

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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. – John E. Southard

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. – Helen Peters

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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