If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

At a time when we need an urgent national conversation about how schools and curriculum should address the environmental crisis, we’re being told that the problems we need to focus on are teacher incompetence, government...

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.If you...

Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart.

Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the...

Teach don’t preach!

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

No one can hurt you without teaching a life’s lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It’s a strange thing isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks...

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious...

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

.you can have little and be rich..

Children are everything we could have been.

When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can’t see itself.

Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.

Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers...

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a...

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She’s ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it all in. She still has...

Participating in the filling of others’ brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities...

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is...

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live...

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression ‘imitators.’ He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression ‘follower’ he always explains...

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom,...

The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it’s your choice.

If you can’t be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.