The following are various quotes by teachers and musicians for Teachers and Students alike.

Children are our most valuable natural resource

Herbert Hoover

One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn.

Herbert Kohl

The people who influence you are people who believe in you.

Henry Drummond

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

Every student can learn, just not on the same day or the same way.

George Evans

What the pupils want to learn is as important as what the teachers want to teach.

Lois E. LeBar

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

I touch the future, I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart, shapes the future.

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

Patricia Neal

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

While music should not be considered an end in itself, its true merit is in the benefit it brings to the development of the whole personality….  That person is not the best educated who has learned the most, but he who knows best how to learn.

Lowell Mason

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talbert

Hide not your talents, they for us were made. What’s a sundial in the shade.

Ben Franklin

Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best.

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