Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Men, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

• I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Teaching

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Democracy, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.31, RosettaBooks

• I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Differences, May

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

• Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Intelligent, Class

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

• One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Teaching, School

• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

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