The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

If kids come to us [educators / teachers] 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.

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly – we only think it does.

You teach best what you need to learn.

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