Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

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

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

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.

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

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

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I touch the future. I teach.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.