I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things..

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself..

In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman ….

I’m worse at what I do best..

All in all is all we are..

He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. ….

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and ….

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a jo….

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV..

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you li….

I thought equality was non-negotiable..

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had..

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher.

According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found way….

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise.".

No one is content with his own lot..

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves..

Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever..

I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something..

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great..

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 performa….