I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say ‘We’ve always done it that way,’ my ghost will appear and haunt you for twentyfour hours.
Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
