The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood..

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music..

Old teachers never die, they just grade away..

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left….

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory..

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teache….

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the i….

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal..

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can….

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to….

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, bab….

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a bo….

I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and that I should throw out….

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another..

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the t….

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives..

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell ….

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argume….

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught..

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young..

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell whe….