the experience is the hardest teacher, before you do the…

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

— Todd Whitaker

“It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are the strongest...”

— Charles M. Blow

It's very difficult to say what experience was the hardest. 'Long Way Round' was the first one, so we didn't know anything.

— Charley Boorman

“His other tattoo runs down his side along his ribs, and says, ‘Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test…

— Aurora Rose Reynolds

“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.”

— Aurora Rose Reynolds

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

— Tina Fey

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

— H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will…

— Ioannes Amos Commenius

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

— Nicholas Sparks

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

— Donald Miller

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

— Henry Giroux

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez