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I think good teachers are underpaid.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one’s toes.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.