Jacques Barzun Quotes

I'm a big fan of teachers.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

Books are absent teachers.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

To teach is to learn twice.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

I wanted to be a teacher.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

I was going to become a teacher.

Dad's the master, I'm the student.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.