We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.