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My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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. (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes) Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens (College Teaching Quotes) 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 (College Teaching Quotes)