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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.