"I've come to a frightening conclusion that I am
the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate.
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, a child humanized or de-humanized."
-Haim Ginott
"There are days they'll treat you like you could
walk on water. Other days, they'll want to put you under it."
-Don Faris
"I will not yell in class and I will not throw things
and I will not pinch or even hit and I will not have a temper tantrum and I must always be a good example
to all the kids... because I am the teacher... I am the teacher... I am the teacher..."
"A child miseducated is a child lost."
-John F. Kennedy
"The human mind can only absorb what the
human seat can endure."
-Hugh Shantz
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