Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Language is a living thing

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

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

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

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.