"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry"

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

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

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

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

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick"

"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"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

"We need to redefine the role of the teacher from that of the transmitter of knowledge to that of a researcher, co-learner, and partner in the process of constructing knowledge"