What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves..

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but ….

The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countere….

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your ow….

Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students..

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly b….

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death..

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh..

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and s….

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are….

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health..

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness..

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a ….

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of huma….

A good teacher is a determined person.

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the l….

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that ….

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produce….

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work..

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it..