Elie Wiesel Quotes

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

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

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

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

Me, a teacher? No way!

My parents were teachers.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

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