...how not to dance

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance" -e e Cummings

...teacher creates many masterpieces...

"Teaching is the greatest of all the arts, for the teacher creates many masterpieces all at the same time." -Michael Barringer

...the greatest act of optimism.

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism." -Colleen Wilcox

The first duty of a lecturer...

"The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." -Virginia Woolf

I cannot teach anybody anything...

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates

Education is what survives...

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner

It is because modern education...

"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young." -Bertrand Russell

Colleges are places where pebbles...

"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." -Robert G. Ingersoll

It is a miracle that curiosity

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein

How is it that little children...

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -Alexandre Dumas fils

The authority of those who teach...

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." -Cicero

The best teacher is the one...

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." -Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Time is a great teacher...

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -Hector Louis Berloiz