Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as read more

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Diligence is a great teacher.

Diligence is a great teacher.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.