"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University"

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

"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"

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

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

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

"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"