To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others