“For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.”
“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.”
“If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!”
“A Teacher is no good without the student and the student is no good without the teacher.”
“The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.”
“A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!”