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.

We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything,...

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and...