... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere..

The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a c….

Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out….

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laug….

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it..

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses..

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for ….

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance..

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course,….

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe.

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them..

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening t….

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour..

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child..

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is….

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow..

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass..

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a….

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige an….

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say….