Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

The real work is in the practice.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.