Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

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.

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.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.