The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

There are special strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

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.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

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.

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

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.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.