To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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.

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

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

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.