When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

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

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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 only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.