Teaching was a sudden immersion in the hot water of sociability! I was so afraid, it took me two weeks to be able to stand up behind my desk. I loved teaching, but got too involved in the students’ lives.
Education Quotes
It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
Whether you are talking about education, career or service, you are talking about life … and life really must have joy. It’s supposed to be fun!
I’m not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I’m not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I’m irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
I was always good at math, and I was going to be an engineer, because you had to have a real job. Where I come from, there are no artists; artists were teaching at the high school down the street.
I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
I have been passionate about certain things forever, and I fell in love with computers in fourth grade. I got very lucky: My elementary school had a teletype that was connected to a mainframe computer that some business in downtown Houston donated a little bit of computer time to.
