Editing Rod Serling (section)

===Teaching===
Serling kept his schedule full. When he was not writing, promoting, or producing his work, he often spoke on college campuses around the country.<ref name=Rosenbaum/> He taught week-long seminars in which students would watch and critique films. In the political climate of the 1960s, he often felt a stronger connection to the older students in his evening classes.<ref name=Rosenbaum/> Serling's critique of high school student writing was a pivotal experience for writer [[J. Michael Straczynski]].<ref name="jms1995">{{cite newsgroup
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}}{{cquote|Then [Rod Serling] said: "You have a great and substantial talent for your age. Two pieces of advice: one, don't ever let them stop you from telling the stories you want to tell; two, cut every third adjective."<br><br>     Then he walked off, and as soon as he was out the door, the faculty advisor came running at me at warp nine.  "What did he say, what did he say, whatdidhesay?"  I told her.  "Don't you know who that was?" she asked.<br><br>     I said no, though there was something kinda familiar about him, and remember it's always different when you see somebody out of context.  "That was Rod Serling," she said, "he's here to speak at the college later today."<br><br>     Had there been a gun within easy reach, I would almost certainly have put a bullet into my brain.  By the time I ran out, he was gone.}}</ref>

By the fourth season of ''Twilight Zone,'' Serling was exhausted and turned much of the writing over to a trusted stable of screenwriters, authoring only seven episodes. Desiring to take a break and clear his mind, he took a one-year teaching job as writer in residence at Antioch College, Ohio. He taught classes in the 1962–63 school year on writing and drama and a survey course covering the "social and historical implications of the media."<ref name=CAO/><ref name=Scribner/> He used this time to teach as well as work on a new screenplay, ''[[Seven Days in May]]'', which he also co-produced through Cayuga Productions.<ref name=Scribner/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1962-02-21_225_13 |title=Variety 1962-02-21: Vol 225 Iss 13 |date=1962-02-21}}</ref>

Later he taught at [[Ithaca College]], from the late 1960s until his death in 1975.<ref name=CAO/><ref name=Memorial>{{cite news | title = Serling Memorial Monday | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D13FD3B58157493C3A9178CD85F418785F9 | agency = [[United Press International]] | work =[[The New York Times]] | date= July 1, 1975 | page= 32 | access-date = September 16, 2013}} Abstract of pay-site article.</ref> He was one of the first guest teachers at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College in Hollywood, California. Audio recordings of his lectures there are included as bonus features on some ''Twilight Zone'' home video editions.