I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.