Schoolteacher Quotes

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. (Toni Morrison)
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars. View quote
Neal Shusterman
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. View quote
Janet Frame
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. View quote
Arna Bontemps
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. View quote
Charles Kuralt
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. View quote
Simon van der Meer
I was a frustrated schoolteacher, persisting against overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the belief that the human mind could be moved by facts and reason. View quote
Dean Acheson
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The doctor who makes a friend of his patients, the lawyer who defends death penalty cases in distant countries for no fee, the schoolteacher who opens a child's eyes to a new world of books and poetry - such people do nothing that can be measured in marketplaces. The greatest painters, composers and writers don't offer you choices, they present you with what only they can do, and you must take it or leave it. So when such subjects as the values of the marketplace are discussed, you will probably not have much to contribute. You can repeat a poem in your head and wait until the conversation is over. But if anyone starts talking about "level playing fields," get up and steal quietly from the room. View quote
John Mortimer
My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? View quote
John Taylor Gatto
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? View quote
Jane D. Hull
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child. View quote
Kerry Healey
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. View quote
Bruce Jackson
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. View quote
Stephen Pagliuca
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money. View quote
Wood Harris
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. View quote
Julie Andrews
Who says it's poetry, anyhow? My ten year old can do it and rhyme. Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher, he ought to know. Go and find work. (Basil Bunting)
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher. View quote
Peter Carey
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. View quote
Edmund Hillary
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four. View quote
Albert Camus
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me. View quote
Wole Soyinka