“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

—  Paulo Coelho

Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 78.
Source: The Witch Of Portobello

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