"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King"

"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"

"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"

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

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher"