Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

I found school very boring and frustrating.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

I always wanted to teach.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.

School was never for me, kinda.

My dad's a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially hate American students. They think you owe them something. They come to you ... Office hours!

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.