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Shirley Hufstedler Quotes

Shirley Hufstedler Quotes.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
Shirley Hufstedler
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared … to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
If you haven’t failed, you haven’t tried very hard.
Shirley Hufstedler
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Shirley Hufstedler
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
Shirley Hufstedler
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Shirley Hufstedler
I’m bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
Shirley Hufstedler