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The word teacher has its roots in the Latin word meaning to lead or to draw out. Good teachers draw out the best in every student; they  are willing to polish and shine until the true luster of each student comes through. 
A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. Mrs Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot of people, and so will you
She left nothing to chance.
The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is build a child's self-confidence. Any child can learn if he or she has not already been taught too thoroughly that learning is impossible. Children need reassurance and encouraagement. They have to be told that it is all right to make mistakes because mistakes are part of learning.
Having children read silently in class only allows their mistakes to go unnoticed.
I am always reminding my students that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for only a day. If you teach him how to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime
Fairy tales and fables whet a child's appetite for more reading,  and they are an excellent means for teaching the rudiments of literacy analysis
Sometimes the class was a kind of group therapy session. They shared their experiences, and I was open in talking about mine. I never believed a teacher should pretend to be perfect. A teacher who never displays any human weaknesses makes children self-conscious about admitting their own.
Knowing a child's previous record can sway a teacher's expectations. Each child came to me with a clean slate.
The one thing all children finally wanted was the chance to be accepted for themselves, to feel some self-worth. Once they felt it, children became addicted to learning, and they had the desire to learn forever.
No matter how many times he shouted at me, 'I hate you and I'm not going to do the damn work,' i always answered, 'I love you all the time, even when you behave like this.'
There is no such thing as the way to reach a student. Any way is the way as long as it works for the individual child.
One of the things I hated most about the public schools was how quickly teachers 'blue-slipped' children for psychological referral. Every time they came across a child who was too hard to deal with, out came the blue slip, a convenient excuse.
A teacher's assessment of a child is necessarily based on that teacher's life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive or negative reaction because of the teacher's past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities.
A teacher can make or break a child, favor or stigmatize him
A teacher has to be sensitive to all things at all times. Even such offhand remarks as 'Your older brother was a brilliant student' or 'You're the biggest one in class so you stand in the back row for the assembly program' can alienate a child.
I have come to believe that some of the problems plaguring modern education are the result of the emphasis placed on 'progressive' teaching methods.The fact is a teacher can combine both progressive and traditional approaches to learning,  each enhancing the other. There is no reason why a teacher can't be sensitive to a child's needs and at the same time teach the child subject matter and skills.
I never gave homework until I was certain that the child could do it successfully. 
My approach is to address a fault without ever attacking a child's character. Who they were was always seperate and distinct from what they did. A child could give up the behavior without giving up any dignity or self-worth. 
I prepared my children for life. And I didn't mince any words in doing it. I didn't hesitate to discusss crime in the ghetto, drugs, prison, or teenage pregnancy.
I did not teach black history as a subject apart from American history, emphasize black heroes over white, or preach black consciousness rather than a sense of the larger society.
 The concept of self-determination goes hand in hand with self-discipline. The general rule in my class was that behaviour contributing to the learning process or benefiting another child was acceptable. Anything that took away another child's right to learn was not.
I never took sides in a student scuffle, and I refused to hear who threw the first punch. Instead of listening to any feeble excuse about who did what to whom, I had the two culprits embrace and say 'I love you' to one another.
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
The more successful a person becomes, the harder he or she has to work to stay there.
I wasn't there to judge my students, my job as a teacher was to get their talents working. And that's what I tried to do.
These books are over the head of the student readers; that is the purpose of reading them. We read to stretch the mind, to seek, to strive, to wonder, and then reread. 
The one question that ought to be asked on a teaching application is: do you love children? To me that's the most important criterion for a teacher, more important than credentials or college degrees.
If you take the problems to the parent, you and the child will not learn to trust each other and work together. Children respect teachers who do not always send notes home to parents.
Just as Michelangelo thought there was an angel lovked inside every piece of marble, I think there is a brilliant child locked inside every student in this school.
At WPS, we rinse out the negative brainwashing and replace it with postive reinforcement, consistently telling our pupils that they come from royal blood, and that there is nothing they can't do. We mean it, and because of we believe in them, the students come to believe in themselves. 
Make sure students know that if they can't make mistakes, they can't make anything. Create a positive classroom ambience so that your students know it is more courageous to make a mistake than to play it safe by not responding.