You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.