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If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns
to find love in the world.
By: Kevin William Huff
Teachers
Paint their minds
And guide their thoughts
Share their achievements
And advise their faults.
Inspire a love
Of Knowledge and truth
As you light the path
Which leads our youth.
For our future brightens
With each lesson you teach
Each smile you lengthen
Each goal you help reach.
For the dawn of each poet
Each philosopher and king
Begins with a Teacher
And the wisdom they bring.
One hundred years from now
It will not mater
What kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
How much money was in my bank account
Nor what my clothes looked liked.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child
"Whose Child is this?" I asked one day
Seeing a little one out at play
"Mine," said the parent with a tender smile
"Mine to keep a little while
To bathe his hands and comb his hair
To tell him what he is to wear
To prepare him that he may always be good.
And each day do the things he should"
"Whose child is this?" I asked again
As the door opened and someone came in
"Mine," said the teacher with the same tender smile
"Mine, to keep just for a little while
To teach him how to be gentle and kind
To train and direct his dear little mind
To help him live by every rule
And get the best he can from school."
"Whose child is this?" I ask once more
Just as the little one entered the door
"Ours" said the parent and the teacher as they smiled
And each took the hand of the little child
"Ours to love and train together
Ours this blessed task forever."