The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves or by any new technology.
It's impossible to move to live to operate at any level without leaving traces bits seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I took an acting class. After the first day the teacher quit so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian ' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
A father is a person who's around participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person someone for that young person to talk to to share with their ups and their downs their fears and their concerns.
When you become a parent or a teacher you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child regulating it.
A good teacher is a determined person.
As a teacher as a propagandist Mr. Shaw is no good at all even in his own generation. But as a personality he is immortal.
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.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals ' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.