Sudha Murty Quotes

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I wanted to be a teacher.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

I was an elementary school teacher.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

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'm glad I was a teacher.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It is not the least service which a college or university may render to those under its instruction, to habituate them to looking not only patiently but methodically on both sides, before adopting any conclusion upon controverted issues.

Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

Teachers are important in this world.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

I'm a big fan of teachers.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.