Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner and it is for you to find the other three.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever after due examination and analysis you find to be kind conducive to the good the benefit the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.