"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
― Max Beerbohm
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- "We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."― Phyllis Diller
- "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."― Henri Frederic Amiel
- "My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."― Simon Newcomb