“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?”

“Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.”

“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...”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”

“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.”