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

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.

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

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

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

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