Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.
