reflecting on this thoughts....

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.
--Sir Winston Churchill

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
--Marva Collins

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future a vision based on common values -- is only training.
--Nido Qubein

Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before the lesson.
--Vernon Law

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.The great teacher inspires.
--William Arthur Ward

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, But to irrigate ditches.
--C.S. Lewis

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
--Whitney Houston

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation.
--Unknown

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
--Albert Einstein

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
--Jacques Barzun

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
--Richard Henry Dann

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
--Chinese Proverb