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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.