That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it back locally,

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages–and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback–so must our students...

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen...

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created...

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.

Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Did one learn or was one shaped?

.nothing’s perfect and that’s perfect..

Success is not only in the hand; it is in the heart.

We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

Laziness demands misery.

You will always receive what you are equal to.

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils,...

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts – children – into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a...

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

The expression ‘Those who can’t do, teach’ is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you’ll see that teachers aren’t particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the...

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

It was a teaching tape. We try to learn something and take something for everybody.

She’s the first young person who began with us and went on to pursue her dream of teaching dance. And we are lucky enough to have her here for her first professional job.

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all...

… Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God’s behalf to provide direction for...

One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on...

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to...

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

Say yes to life and life will say yes to you!

We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.

Kindness is an open communication between hearts and not required to be learned by searching, teaching, or even preaching.

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always!

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let’s face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be...

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.