A good teacher is a determined person

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

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

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.

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

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.