H. L. Mencken Quotes

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.