When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are pa….

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was spark….

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live..

The educator has the duty of not being neutral..

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed..

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose..

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafete….

You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but your….

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher..

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing..

Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, yo….

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher..

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defen….

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go..

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because t….

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers..

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills..

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher..

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day..

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. N….

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time f….