A dedicated and passionate Teacher-Venkatalakshmi Sridhar

I owe a lot in my life to my wife! She is so passionate about teaching. She started teaching when she was just in her teens...To this day students  who come to her for learning want to stay with her for as long as they can.
I salute her!! May her tribe increase!!

Happy Teachers' Day

GURUR VISHNU,
GURUR DEVO MAHESHWARAH
GURUR SAAKSHAAT PARA-BRAHMA,
TASMAI SHRI GURUVE NAMAH.

Summary of the Mantra

The Guru is Brahma (The God of Creation)
The Guru is Vishnu (The God of Sustenance)
The Guru is Shiva (The God of Annihilation)
My Salutation to such a Guru, who is verily the Supreme God

666_Teacher's Day

Today's topic is Teacher's Day.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
~ C. S. Lewis

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~ Khalil Gibran

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~ John Steinbeck


A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
~ Brad Henry

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~ Lily Tomlin

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
~ Elbert Hubbard

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~ Dr. Seuss

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
~ Andy Rooney

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~ Anatole France

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
~ Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
~ Steve Harvey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
~ William Hazlitt

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~ Bryant H. McGill

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Stevie Wonder

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth

Experience is the teacher of all things.
~ Julius Caesar

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

I'm glad I was a teacher.
~ John Wooden

 
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