Reading with Meaning

I was just going over some of my college textbooks and I read a really great quote that I thought I should share:

"The children I teach are limited only when I choose to limit myself."

-Debbie Miller, "Reading with Meaning"

I really liked that quote.  Just makes me feel justified in wanting to do things in my classroom and for my students that everyone tells me I don't need to do because no one cares.  It has always been in my personality to go "above and beyond" what is expected of me or what everyone else tends to do.  I am not trying to "one up" anyone or be "better" than someone else... it is just that I hold myself to high standards and my classroom to high standards.  If those standards are different than other classrooms... so be it.  I do the things I do to keep my classroom they way I want it to be and do what is best for my students.  Those are my priorities and I feel those are the priorities that every teacher should have.