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  • My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. -- George Stigler
  • The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. -- Helen Garner
  • I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. -- David Eddings
  • I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. -- Moby
  • I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. -- Dick Gephardt
  • The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. -- John Oates
  • I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate. -- Kay Granger
  • I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. -- Joss Whedon
  • If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too. -- J. D. Souther
  • Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities. -- Derek Bok
  • I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. -- Geoffrey Canada
  • In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why. -- Heather Wilson
  • My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. -- Twyla Tharp
  • I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left. -- John Wooden
  • By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong. -- Chris Crutcher
  • I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it. -- Jessica Valenti
  • I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management. -- Mike McCue
  • My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course. -- Adam Hamilton
  • In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. -- Joseph Sobran
  • Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. -- Jon Porter
  • Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach. -- LaVell Edwards
  • When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies. -- Elie Wiesel
  • I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me. -- Kathleen Hanna
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