“Everyone who remembers their own educational experience remembers teachers, not methods and techniques.”

“In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.”

“Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.”

“I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.”

“The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.”

“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”