Rebecca Traister Quotes

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

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

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.