“The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.”

“It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”

“One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.”

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“…because academics everywhere are forever attacking one another, and I had long since learned that one must never believe what a teacher says of another.”

“This is a book by a writer who does some teaching, not a book by a teacher who does some writing, and one of the satisfactions of the craft is that there's always something new to learn.”

“The best of those amongst you is the one who learns the Qur’an and then teaches it to others.”

“He was a great teacher, who believed that learning is not for hoarding but to be shared. He had an unsurpassed enthusiasm for explaining the phenomenon of nature in a manner that the most uninitiated could understand.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”