Jesse L. Martin Quotes

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

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

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.

My mother was a teacher.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

My mother was a teacher.

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

The most experienced teachers are frequently promoted right out of the classroom!

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

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

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.

I was going to become a teacher.

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.