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.

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

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

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

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

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

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