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Ellie Cooch
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Do not fall into the error of the [teacher] who boasts of 20 years' experience, while in fact he has had only one year's experience - 20 times. (anonymous)



I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom...It is my personal approach that creates the climate.  It is my daily mood that makes the weather.  As a teacher I possess 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.  
                           (Dr. Haim Ginott)
Nothing doesn't exist. 
(John Dobson, Sidewalk Astronomer)
Spit out your gum.  (Mrs. Cooch) 
(I will probably never be widely quoted but it is highly likely that I have been mimicked.)
The primary goal of teaching should be to provide students with the opportunities to come to depend on themselves and to know that what they have discovered is theirs forever. (anonymous)  

 

  

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