I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

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.

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.

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

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

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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.

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

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

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.