"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California"

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

"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"