Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Mama was my greatest teacher a teacher of compassion love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.