“Failure in any given subject is the first qualification towards becoming a teacher.”

“Under David Cameron, we have this situation where you now need more qualifications to work as a shift manager at McDonald's than to become a teacher.”

“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”

“Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.”

“I am unclear what a "role model" is, but those who used the term seemed to be saying that teachers are people children tend to emulate. In any event, many Miamians must have thought their children would become homosexual if subjected to homosexual teachers.
That prompted me to ponder teachers I haven't seen, and scarcely thought about, for decades, and for the first time I reflected on how their sex lives had affected my own. My first thought was that it was curious, perhaps perverse, that I have not turned out to be a spinster.”

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.”

“An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”

“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”

“Objective reality is the amalgamation of every subjective reality, which added together forms the objective reality relative to any given subject.”

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ”