Christa McAuliffe

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Christa McAuliffe (2 September 1948 – 28 January 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Quotes

• No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.
  • As quoted in American Heroes of Exploration and Flight (1996) by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102

• I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
  • Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986 Framingham State College - Henry Whittemore Library

• Reach for it, you know. Go push yourself as far as you can.
  • Tanscript - CNN Presents: CHRISTA MCAULIFFE REACH FOR THE STARS (22 January 2006

• What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.
  • "Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986" in TIME magazine (10 February 1986)

• May your future be limited only by your dreams!
  • As quoted in "New Hampshire Town Reeling From Shock, Grief" by Bob Drogin in The Los Angeles Times (30 Januray 1986)

Disputed

• I Touch the Future — I Teach.
  • As quoted in "I Touch the Future —" : The story of Christa McAuliffe (1985) by Robert T. Hohler, p. 155; this was on a t-shrit which she brought on her shuttle baggage, but the expression might not have originated with her.