I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
Teach
I teach that all men are mad.
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
You can’t be an American if you don’t speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.
When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.