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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you’re capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I’m teaching myself to believe in things I don’t understand, I don’t even know if they’re true, but that’s what dreamers do.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love – that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Education is the best provision for old age.

In order to be a teacher you’ve got to be a student first

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.