10 Quotes by Jesse Stuart

I had one criticism to make of my teachers. I had heard a few of them say, "Oh, I'm just a teacher." This burned me up. I told my teachers to never say this. I told them to walk proudly, with their heads held high, and to thank God they had chosen the teaching profession--the mother of all professions; that they were members working in the front line of American democracy. that they were the ground roots and not the brace roots of American democracy.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I am a farmer singing at the plow.

I thought if every teacher in every school in America – rural, village, city, township, church, public, or private, could inspire his pupils with all the power he had, if he could teach them as they had never been taught before to live, to work, to play, and to share, if he could put ambition into their brains and hearts, that would be a great way to make a generation of the greatest citizenry America ever had.

I know as surely as I live and breath the positive proof of what education can do for a man.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

No other profession in America has directly or indirectly affected the lives of so many people a has the teaching profession.