I wanted to be a teacher but I was a lousy student one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

When people lack teachers their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles then their lawlessness is not controlled.

When I was in junior high school the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.