If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

"Thinking" is not something we talk about.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.