QUOTES TO INSPIRE MUSIC TEACHERS
Dear colleagues, a new school year has started for many of us and if not yet for everyone, it is about to start soon for some others.
What I always feel I need to do at the beginning of every new academic year is to read some inspiring quotes about teaching. It kind of reminds me of what my purpose is as a piano teacher and why I started teaching 30 years ago. Well, to be honest with you, I've always wanted to be a piano teachers, I still do, but there are times of the year that I'm so tired and I need some inspirational quotes to remind me my goals and my philosophy of teaching.
In this post I am sharing with you my collection of quotes, 20 most favorite quotes and I hope they inspire you, too.
How I use them
I post them on my social media, I even have some of them on the walls of my music school to read them every day.
For some quotes I don't know the author so if you know them, let me know.
Please feel free to send me your own favorite quotes that inspire you.
It would be nice to share thoughts and inspire each other.
"A student is almost always motivated to practice if she leaves her lessons feeling capable"
Frances Clark
"The fact that children make beautiful music is less significant than music makes beautiful children"
Cheryl Lavender
"Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart."
S. Suzuki
'"Students don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember who you are."
Jim Henson
"Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me, and I understand.”
Chinese proverb
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark Van Doren
"Playing music is such a great way to bring people together"
"Behind every student who believed in themselves is a teacher who believed in them first"
"Never discourage a child who continually makes progress, no matter how slow"
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn"
Ignasio Estrada
"Happiness is seeing the smile on a child's face as they learn"
"The art of teaching is creating a situation in which the student wants nothing more than to learn."
Frances Clark
"Inside every child there is a rainbow ready to shine"
"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart."
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"
Albert Einstein
"One of the most beautiful gifts you can give our children is music education"
"My job isn't just a job, it's who I am"
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."
Brad Henry
"Change the world. Teach Music."
