If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.