When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.
I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.
I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.
The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo.
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
