Teacher Appreciaiton Week

I would like to take a moment to thank all of our teachers for the work that they do day-in and day-out to enrich the lives of the children who walk into Henley each day. Until you have walked in the shoes of a teacher, you never know how challenging, frustrating and rewarding their work can be. It takes someone very special to dedicate their lives to teaching. We all need a little pick me up every now and then, so here are a few quotes about our work that I hope will make our teachers feel good. I hope they all enjoy this week and the small tokens that we have in place to honor all of them.

•  The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
• Teaching creates all other professions. ~Author Unknown
• 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
• Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy
• A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams
• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish