The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort over many years.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.