2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.