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

“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.”

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”

“…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.”

“Teachers should be able to help learners to efficiently communicate to other numerical ideas and to make connection with real-life problems in the areas chosen for their eventual career. Training only on subject matter is definitely not going to bring about this expertise. There must be more emphasis on coaching and facilitating techniques. In their normal practices, teachers must see very clearly where each individual learner stands on the learning continuum of that particular development, what problems and difficulties he or she is going to face and what lies ahead on that learning continuum to be walked by the learner. Teachers should be trained to be a master of how to help each and every learn to walk through the learning task. Going through the learning task is a necessary and essential aspect of teacher training but it is not sufficient to make them good and effective teachers.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

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

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

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