"Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"

"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"

"Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello"

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"