If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

Our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."