“Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.” 

“We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.” 

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning” 

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

I dare not say that I have reached any state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.” 

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” 

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”

“In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.”

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.