Gilbert Highet Quotes

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

I teach.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

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

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I was going to become a teacher.

I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

To teach is to learn twice.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

One of my missions was to teach.