It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters… — Todd Whitaker Copy Share Image
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star... — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility... — W. Howard Lester Copy Share Image
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying… — K. Patricia Cross Copy Share Image
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image