A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the...

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

The number one skill in life is not giving up.

…we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn’t poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Ugliness sees ugliness; beauty sees beauty.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

If you can’t be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

Love exalts because it is exalted.

Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

Active critical reflection is necessary in every aspect of our teaching, not only in front of a class. We must try to reevaluate our own values and experiences as they relate to our teaching. Our...

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one’s own method, the power of love.

When red fights with white, pink is always the winner. Let that be a lesson in love.

Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where...

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: ‘This is how...

I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn’t use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That’s what prisoners do on walls. They mark the...

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

.keep the child inside you alive..

When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don’t forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

Give a man a teacher and he’ll learn many a thing.Teach a man to learnand he’ll learn from everything.

If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will...

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect...

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

It’s iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.

I can’t say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach ’em that way.

There’s nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don’t do it after you already did it.

schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way...

I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.

It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for...

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.