Maya Angelou Quotes About Teachers

• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Beautiful, Education

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.258, Random House

• At our best, we are all teachers

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher

• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

• What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Children, Mean

• My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

• At our best, we're all teachers

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher

• When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, People

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 10, 2013

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