Little warms us like the soul’s own spark of self-worth.
—Noah benShea
Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
—Harper Lee
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
—John Jay Chapman
When will the public cease to insult the teacher’s calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
—William C. Bagley
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
—Ryszard Kapuscinski
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry B. Adams
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
—Harriet Martineau
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
—M. Scott Peck
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
—Fawn M. Brodie
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers . . . with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling . . .
—Carl Gustav Jung
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
—William Safire
America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply con...