Famous Quotes About teacher

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.