Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you..

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a r….

The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not th….

Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores.….

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit dif….

No one ever indoctrinated me..

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand..

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got th….

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence..

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself..

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn..

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile..

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from ….

Especially learn how to see..

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was h….

I learned very soon to get along by myself..

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit..

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like..

The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about diff….

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourag….

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being..