Korosensei Quotes
Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.
Please remember that there are times to take someone's hand and lead them along... But also times when you must be stern and let them fend for themselves.
Its dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because theyll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.
Tests are a good thing. The knowledge gained from a night of cramming will be all but forgotten once you hit adulthood. And that's fine. The experience you gain through competition, having sharpened your skills and broadened your minds all under the same set of rules? That's the real treasure.
Exams are an opportunity to teach correctly the meaning of winning and losing, of strong and weak. Students soak up heaping helpings of successes and setbacks! Take in now what it means to win, what it means to lose!
Honestly, there isn't much meaning to the splendid names given to you by your parents. What does have meaning, is what the person behind that name does during their actual lifetime. The name doesn't make the person. The name simply remains gently within the footprint left on the path a person walks.
The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.
Those who can't do what they have to when the time comes for action will find their presence fading in our classroom. An assassin who neglects to sharpen his blade is no assassin at all. He's just a boastful brat swinging around a rusty sword.
All of the connections we encounter in this world serve as teachers who nurture us.
Broadly speaking, there are two reasons a person feels the desire to teach something Either he wants to pass on his successes or he wants to pass on his failures.
You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you. That makes you no different than the student in the main campus.
The world will always be filled with injustice. If you have time to give up or hold a grudge against that injustice, then use that time to enjoy battling those injustices instead.
If I wasn't prepared to be flexible as the situations demands, I wouldn't have become a teacher.
Is anything ever truly wasted?
The past you've lost will never come back. I myself have made so many mistakes... But we can learn from the past so we don't repeat it.
There wouldn't have been a bright future if I had died or I had been the only one to survive.