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The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.