A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.