Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.