Children Quote by DeRay Mckesson

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for…

— Frank McCourt

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

— Sami Gayle

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

— Loni Anderson

I was an elementary school teacher.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

— Jennie Garth

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

— Peyton List

My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia.

— Mike D'Antoni

I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in…

— Craig Robinson

I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know…

— Lynne Stewart