Aaron Klug Quotes

I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly cynical perspective on what elite institutions - and the privileges they embody - represent in America.

Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.