Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

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.

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

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

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).

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up read more

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.

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.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.