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.

I wept my WAY through TEACHING PRACTICE.

I KNOW from teaching that actors WANT to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a LITTLE too MUCH.

A TEACHER who is not dogmatic is SIMPLY a teacher who is not TEACHING.

I BELIEVE in TEACHING MANNERS WITHOUT causing fisticuffs.

For me, my core GENIUS lies in the AREA of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they GET great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have WRITTEN, co-authored, compiled and EDITED more than 200 books.

The THING with music education is that it is good at TEACHING TECHNIQUE, but not texture. You only learn about that from LISTENING to music and experimenting on your own.

Still TODAY, I cannot cross the threshold of a TEACHING INSTITUTION without PHYSICAL symptoms, in my CHEST and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I think a LOT about teaching my KIDS to WORK HARD.

In the middle of my fourth YEAR teaching is when I got my BOOK CONTRACT - in 2010. I knew the book WOULD come out in May 2011.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula DEVELOPMENT, study guides and other TEACHING MATERIALS.

Let not ENGLAND FORGET her precedence of TEACHING NATIONS how to LIVE.

In teaching color, you teach people how to LOOK something and see the tone in it and break it down to be ABLE to PAINT it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I LIKE colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.