Author name: inspired

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?  John Keats

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. – Henry Brooks Adams

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.  George Bernard Shaw

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in. –Rachel Carlson

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything.  That can wear you down. – Marilyn Hacker

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.” –Robert M. Hutchins

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” –Galileo Galilei

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? – Paul Wellstone

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers. — Richard Bach

Of what unspeakable importance is her education who pre-occupies the unwritten page of being; who produces impressions which only death can obliterate, and mingles with the cradle-dream what shall be read in eternity! – Mrs. Sigourney

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” –Christopher Reeve

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.” –Robert Brault