Being A Teacher Quotes - Page 5

• I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Thinking, Men

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• Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Three, Rewards

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

  Dave Chappelle

  Teacher, Thinking, Salary

  "Chappelle the Shape-Shifter Sits Still Long Enough to Chat" by Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2006.

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• My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Teacher, Teaching, Simple

  "Geek of the Week: Niklaus Wirth". Interview with Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

  Jenna Bush

  Teacher

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• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Teacher, Views, Hygiene

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Gay, Proud

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• Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.

  John C. Reilly

  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

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• My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being a teacher. I don't want to hear anybody preach or teach things to me, especially when I was a kid. But there are messages that people are grabbing onto without me even realizing that they are messages.

  Shane Bunting

  Teacher, Kids, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Teacher, Stars, Littles

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Meaningful, Teacher

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