A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Old teachers never die, they just grade away.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
A man can't retire his experience.
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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