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We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
Sep 29, 2025
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.