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

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that. – Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Jackson went from the professors chair to the officers saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. – Daniel H. Hill