Education Profession Quotes

My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.