Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Source: In Newsweek, 4 May 1964.
-- George Balanchine, (Jan 22 1904-1983), Russian choreographer; He was the most influential choreographer of classical ballet in U.S. in the 20th C.; his works of cool neoclassicism include The Nutcracker, 1954.