Quotes by Haim Ginott

Haim Ginott

Happiness… is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ends

Happiness

Inner Peace

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Education

Inspirational

Life

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Opposites

Parenting

Punishment

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Children

Feels Right

Thinking

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

Children

Happy Mothers Day

Parenting

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

Children

Responsibility

Voice

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Appreciation

Teacher

Teaching

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Independence

Self

Teenager

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Identity

Tasks

Teenager

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Discipline

Praise

Pressure

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Appreciation

Children

Disappointment

Discipline

Education

Ends

Eye

Feels Right

Happiness

Happy Mothers Day

Heart

Hurt

Identity

Independence

Inner Peace

Insightful

Inspirational

Life

Opposites

Parenting

Praise

Pressure

Punishment

Real

Responsibility

Self

Sleep

Tasks

Teacher

Teaching

Teenager

Thinking

Voice

Wise

The Future Blueprint

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The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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The Autobiography

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Quotes by Haim Ginott

Haim Ginott

Happiness… is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

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