Teaching Profession Quotes:

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

- John Wooden

topic: Teaching, Thinking, Our Society, Teacher Appreciation, Teaching Profession

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

- Helen Caldicott

source: Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Teacher, Believe, Fate, Wonderful Teacher, English Teacher

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Children And Education, Children Education

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

- Charles Schumer

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Thinking, Exalted, Teaching Profession

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic, Modern Education, Teaching And Learning

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

- B. Carroll Reece

topic: Running, Teaching, Ideas, Long Runs, General Public

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Years, Teaching Profession, Demoralized

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

- James T. Farrell

source: JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

topic: Growing Up, Father, Book, Teaching Profession, High Places

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

topic: Teaching, Successful, Demand, Successful Businessman, Teaching Profession