Entry 113

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
John F. Kennedy

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck