Teaching Quotes

I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

We need to teach boys to respect girls.

Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

Don’t fear it. That pull between your heart and mind. It is trying to teach you. It is learning your language.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.