School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers

Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college