“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five,...” — William Osler Quote

“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

“To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.”

“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”

“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.”

“I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.”

“A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.”