As a teacher at Princeton, Im surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I dont really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. – Joyce Carol Oates

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. – Tom Brown, Jr.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. – Gus Van Sant

I am sure it is ones duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are ones own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson