One hundred years from now

It will not matter

What king of car I drove

What kind of house I lived in

How much money I had in my bank account,

Nor what my clothes looked like.

But one hundred years from now

The world my be a little better

Because I was important

In the life of a child.

-Unknown

TEACHER

      "I have come to a frightening conclusion.  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 humour, hurt or heal.  In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escaped or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized."

- Dr. Haim Ginott