Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

