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

Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.

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 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.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

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