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...

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.

The number one skill in life is not giving up.

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.

Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about ‘making students happy’ or allowing students to run...

I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching...

Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That’s probably why the two are so often...

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

So you’ll teach me?” Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. “I will make you as terrible as you desire.””I don’t want to be – ,” she started, but he held up his hand.”I know you’re very brave,”...

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

I noticed (the ball) was multicolored. One side was green and the other was red. When we got to the gathering I held that ball up and I said, ‘Before we begin, will you tell...

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After...

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of...

Don’t fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers.

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is...

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do...

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane...

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

.if you’re looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

Peace IS Prosperity.

Balance in life is the key to everything.

There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life’s reward.

Learn to catch yourself and stop yourself immediately when you are engaging in negative self-talk.

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most...

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with...

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Only a self-learnt man can teach others

In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as...

.the worse experience, the better teacher..

He has been instrumental in a lot of peoples? lives – coaching, teaching and being a friend. That?s what he?s always done in his 31 years. His players walk out the door, and they?re not...

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned...