Stephen Sondheim Quotes

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Me, a teacher? No way!

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.

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

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.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

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

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

I always wanted to teach.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

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

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.