History Teacher Quotes:

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

- Dan Rather

source: Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

topic: Thank You, Education, Dream, Wonderful Teacher, Great Teacher

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

- Christa McAuliffe

topic: Dream, Teacher, Teaching, Making History, Global Village

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Learning Environment, Education System

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Basketball, Teacher, Player, History Teacher

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Education, Teacher, Memories, History Teacher

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

- Christa McAuliffe

topic: Vision, World, Village, Making History, Global Village

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Real, History Teacher

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Teacher, Should Have, Battle, Ancient History, Thermopylae

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.

- James W. Loewen

source: "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

topic: College Professors, Graduating High School, Historiography, History Class, History Teacher

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

- Mike Trout

topic: Teacher, Dad, Kids, History Teacher

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

- Laura Carmichael

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Teacher, People, Acting, History Teacher

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

- Ronee Blakley

topic: Teacher, School, Government, History Teacher

It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

- Thom Andersen

topic: Teacher, School, Ideas, Film History, History Teacher

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

- Olivia de Havilland

topic: Teacher, School, Government, History Teacher

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

- Richard Dreyfuss

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Class, History Teacher

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

topic: Girl, Mother, Teacher, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Teacher, Lying, Believe, Good College, School History

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.

- Jamie Foxx

source: "Jamie Unchained". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

topic: Girl, Teacher, School, Stepfathers, Knee Jerk Reactions

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

- George J. Mitchell

topic: Teacher, College, Goal, History Teacher

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

- Roald Dahl

topic: Teacher, Food, Cooking, Affected, Headmasters

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

- Derek Jacobi

topic: Teacher, Thinking, Parent, History Teacher