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

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

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

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

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.

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.

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.