Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

First teach a person to the point of his limitations and then-pfft!-break the limitation. When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

When God is our teacher, we come to think alike.

Parents create life. Teachers help make it worthwhile.

A teacher who teaches less than his fellow instructors should be dismissed. The other teachers will become more diligent both out of fear and out of gratitude.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.