Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

One day with a great teacher is better than a thousand days of diligent study.

I took extra interest in guiding and nurturing students along their academic path because it was one of the things that made her fulfilled.

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.

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

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

She loved her teaching and she got frustrated when one of her students said, well, what do you expect, I'm just from Arkansas. She said, don't tell me that, you're as smart as anybody, you've just got to believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. She believed that anybody could make it.

Experience is a keen teacher;

Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.

My guru at the ashram said that if a teacher was a ten out of ten, then the student might only be a one out of ten because the teacher would constantly uplift them. But if the teacher was a one out of ten, the student would have to rise to be a ten out of ten in order to learn from the teacher. In other words, if you approach your studies diligently enough, with an open mind and heart, you can learn even more from a mediocre teacher than you might from a great one.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

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.

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