A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part..

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of….

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave.

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers….

Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with….

I was fortunate to be at that school in an era in which encounters between students and teachers were encouraged; there were a number of teachers who….

I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different from one another. They all had passion ….

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing..

Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, D….

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate….

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are….

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they….

In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and l….

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than t….

The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear becaus….

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; wi….

As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kil….

Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No, no, no!," he was right. It was really….

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transform….

I didn't fancy any of my teachers..

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me..