#teachers

"The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."

"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,"she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."

"When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."

"True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion."

"A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn."

"I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future."

"The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."