Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

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.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I love to teach - that's my role.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

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.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

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

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

My father taught only math.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.