As we celebrate TEACHERS' DAY, here are some quotes from my archive. Please ponder:

1. What you are is God's gift to you, but what you make of yourself is your gift to God.
- Anonymous.

2. Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- John Cotton Dana.

3. To teach is to learn twice.
- Joseph Joubert.

4. Teaching is a profession that teaches all other professions.
- Anonymous.

5. A good teacher is a master of simplification but an enemy of simplism.
- Louis A. Berman.

6. If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I will promise not to believe everything your child says happens at home.
- Anonymous.

7. What the teacher is, is more important than what he/she teaches.
- Karl Menninger.

8. We die ourselves a little, each time we kill in others something that deserves to live.
- Anonymous.

9. Talk with people ..., not at them.
- David Werner.

10. The difference between good and great is a little extra effort.
- Bill Newman.

11. An observant teacher will have many reasons to praise students.
- Mommy Locksley.

12. Success is the absence of failure.
- Olorunda Samuel.

13. It is only in dictionary that success comes before work.
- Ayodele Locksley.

14. Let your feelings out. Talk, laugh, cry and express anger when you need to, with someone you trust.
- Funmi Akingbade.

15. Instructional strategy will facilitate the effectiveness of the teaching techniques.
- Dr. Awolola.

16. By trying you may fail others, by not trying you fail yourself.
- Anonymous.

17. Our best thoughts are the thoughts of other people.
- Anonymous.

18. A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooke Adams.

19. Success means reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
- Ben Carson.

20. Education is the best provision for all age.
- Aristotle.

For mathematics teachers,

1. Mathematics is the finest creation of the human mind.
- Ayandokun O. O.

2. Mathematics is a subject in which everything is equal to zero.
- P. I. Farayola.



HAPPY TEACHERS DAY!

OLORUNDA SAMUEL,

FSTC, ILESA.

olorundasamuelgbenga@yahoo.com