One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

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The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." | As attributed in Winning Strategies for Classroom Management (2000), p. 2

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