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

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

A good teacher is a determined person

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

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

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

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.