The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly – we only think it does.

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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.

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