Truman Capote Quotes

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I was an elementary school teacher.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

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

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

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.

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

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

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

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.