Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

10.​Teach and you shall receive: the power of giving

The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

"When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give."

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

To teach is to learn.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework

A gift is the transfer of a good without an explicit specification of a quid pro quo. The good can be a tangible thing or money, but it also can be intangible, as in the form of time, attention, information or knowledge. A present is a gift and so may be the attention that one person ‘gives’ another, or the time that a person donates to an art institute as a volunteer. Usually a gift entails reciprocity: the giver expects something in return for the gift given. Friends expect friendly gestures in return for their friendly gestures; donors expect some form of appreciation or another; and those who give presents at Christmas expect to receive presents in return. The key to understanding the phenomenon of the gift is the nature of the reciprocity involved.

I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.

So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others—and less trouble.