Jalal Talabani Quotes

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

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

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.

The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.

Me, a teacher? No way!

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.