“Teaching, good teaching, is a remarkable gift which I highly revere. One of the saddest things that has happened to education, I feel, is the loss of respect and honor once given to educators as professionals…”

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“The kind of education we are looking for, it is necessary that teachers have to walk through this learning process and then practise them later on in their teaching. Professionalism can be achieved by teachers if they practise learning in their teaching.”

“I call education that, which makes man a complete human, which teaches to utilize time…manufactures belief…”

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

“A person can be highly educated, professionally successful and financially illiterate.”

“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“Mostly it is the loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”