"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields"

"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"

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

"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"

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching"

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

"Teaching is the royal road to learning"