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For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.