Teacher Appreciation

As I was writing notes to wild man's teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week, I found some great quotes. I could relate to most, even though I taught for such a short time, I was in school forever! This one made me think of wild man's wonderful teachers, "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." ~Mark Van Doren The teachers at his school are fantastic and boy do they work hard, I still have no idea how they do it! This next one made me think of my stint as a 2nd grade teacher, "If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home." ~Anonymous Teacher. This last one is just for kicks and giggles:

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." ~Donald D. Quinn

Be sure to tell a teacher (past or present) how much you appreciate them before their one week is over. I'm going to try to tell them every week, we'll see how that goes...