#teacher

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #children #deal #eleven #god

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#concert #concert pianist #did #earn #fairly

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#gets #learner #lessons #most #out

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#america #city #could #else #end

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#best #completely #else #rational #rest

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. ↗

— Felix Adler

#public #teacher #thankless

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#against #defends #his #influences #own

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#daughter #education #her #i #inspired

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. ↗

— John Engler

#financial #given #i #i think #michigan

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i am #leader #me #regard