I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight o….

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted..

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one..

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self..

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion..

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,….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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