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.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.