Guy Davenport Quotes

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

I was an elementary school teacher.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.