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A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms is the sambhogakaya that can only be visited by highly realized Bodhisattvas. In the pure realm of the sambhogakaya, the Dharma is continuously taught. One sambhogakaya realm is Tushita, which is presided over by the next Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. Buddha Shakyamuni dwelled there before coming to earth to give Dharma teachings.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.