The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can

connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Mike Krzyzewski Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_teacher3.html#y0IdALRqbcxFkKlr.99

"The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in your life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them." Rabbi Harold Kushner

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Khalil Gibran

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle

Quote #32 Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. Robert M. Hutchins Quote #33 "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

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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 "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."- Bill Beattie