The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Old teachers never die, they just grade away.
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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.
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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