We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.

People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when you’re alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry...

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may...

We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,” he said. “Have you thought of going into teaching?

.if it feels wrong, dont do it..

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

All identification is for control and ownership.

You are the grand estate and administrator of — now.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they’re too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

What if leaves changed shape as well as color? You can teach a man to fish, or you can introduce him to a woman named Fish who happens to look like a trout.

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you’re not really teaching them anything.

I was still learning when I taught my last class.

I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It’s something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn’t mean you learn it. It doesn’t mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies....

To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.

The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.

Our world needs less gurus, and more teachers. Gurus are about helping themselves become successful. Teachers are about helping others become successful.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can’t, I teach. And write.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

You can not teach art, it’s not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and music and people and numbers and concepts and idea that they have never heard...

We are all just humble students of the world.

Start the daily practice of joyful living.

Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.

It’s an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

When you carry a frown you will see more frowns; when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we...

In God’s eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear.

True education kindles the student’s mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

To help our youth abide by the principles involved in temple marriage, we must help them to understand that temple marriage is more than just a place where the ceremony occurs; it is a whole...

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it — teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades...

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, ‘What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Education — whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself — consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good — that...

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

Real mystery – the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book – was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent...

The school takes its coloring from yourown attitude,