Books Quote by Steven Pressfield

“We are in an unschooled world and everyone becomes our tutor.”

— lorraine gokul

“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you…

— Chad Harbach

“To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.”

— David Guterson

“What you have to give is taught in no college, and I am not sure but you would spoil yourself if you tried to…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“The best lessons are often taught by the worst experiences; focus on the message and not the author.”

— Gaberiel, Oris Smith

“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one…

— Helen Keller

“The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings,…

— Nathan M. Pusey

“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Great obstacles were the tutors of great men.”

— Carey Wallace

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ”

— Thomas Gray

“She believed that a good teacher should make a poor student good, and a good student superior. I remember her saying, “When our students…

— Kevin Hall

“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never…

— Michael Wolff