"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"

"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"

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense"

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