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

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.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

I've never mentioned this but when I was at Parsons teaching the other design disciplines they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ and they're out there and I wonder who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country Waylon Jennings Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

When a father absent during the day returns home at six his children receive only his temperament not his teaching.

Yeah I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research living in the forest teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

In my teaching I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.