“To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.”

— Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings

About Louis Sullivan

1856 – 1924

American architect, known as the "father of skyscrapers".

“Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.”

“We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.”

“It must be tall, every inch of it tall.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”