“Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them ”

“Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God Id learn. Nothing was going to stop me.”

“So long as we learn it doesnt matter who teaches us, does it?”

“The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.”

“It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everyt...”

“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”