I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

A very wise old teacher once said: 'I consider a day's teaching is wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.' He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, workers and driver, jailer and prisoners, they become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

Life is amazing, and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

A teacher should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

I am not a teacher, I am an awakener.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned only yesterday.

To teach is to learn twice.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.