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Do you agree with these quotes. Prove it.

“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

Author Unknown

“Our children are living messages we send into a time and place we will never see.”

Author Unknown

“Some teachers are great… they put bandages on my hurts – on my heart, on my mind, on my spirit. Those teachers cared about me and let me know it! They gave me wings…”

Marian Franklin from “Thoughts of a Dropout”

“A teacher affects eternity.”

Henry Adams

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Education made us what we are.”

Claude Adrien Helvetius, a French philosopher

“Educators who embrace PCs as a new teaching tool and learning tool will be agents of change.”

Bill Gates

“If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.”

Dan Quayle (1947 -), a U.S. politician.

This is a misappropriation of the saying, “If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime”. Speech, job training centre, Atlanta, Georgia

“Learning is good in and of itself … the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.”

George Bush (1924 -), a U.S. president. Accepting his nomination as presidential candidate. August 18, 1988

“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”

Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), a U.S. teacher and philosopher. Orphic Sayings. From The Dial, “The Teacher”

“To teach well is to be a lifelong student.”

Johnetta Betsch Cole (1936 -), a U.S. educator and cultural antropologist. Conversations: Straight Talk with America’s Sister President

“Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), a British prime minister and writer. Speech in the British Parliament

“What else is education but the reverent joining of the past to the gloom of the future by making wise use of the present? ”

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 – 1827)

“Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

Euripides

Read and translate the poems about teachers. Discuss the role of the teacher in the children life.