Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are read more

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.

To teach is to learn twice.

To teach is to learn twice.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The sounding jargon of the schools.

The sounding jargon of the schools.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.