A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

Any good is good enough.

You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.

No one can make you feel anything; you are completely responsible for how you feel.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Along with thirty-two years of being a professor at Princeton and Yale, I also greatly enjoy teaching out on the road.

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

Only a self-taught man can teach others

..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I’d rather my students take a thinking stance.

Enseigner, c’est apprendre deux fois

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

Never before have I had a student that was so unhappy with my teaching, … The overwhelming comments on my evaluations were ‘this is the best course I’ve ever had.’

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly (“It is believed…,” instead of, “I believe…”), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude...

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: “This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think...

Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that’s what will...

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students – to force them to see things in a new way. i’ve known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that...

The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.

We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that cut-and-dried, fool-proof, systematic fashion we might have expected or desire. He wrote no...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can...

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.

There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.

The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.

Quit waiting for others to give to you; it is not going to happen.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally...

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one’s mind...

You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn’t stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the...

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It’s harder to scare them...

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays...

Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and...

The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day.

At it’s highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student’s mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its...

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Composure, a level head, a knowledge of what you want done, and why you want it done andfaith in your own ability to have it done gives composure to the whole school. Restlessness, lackof faith...

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who...

.fear aint real..

The world’s only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.

The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

When children are taught to be “good” and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people’s happiness.

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.