William Hague Quotes

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.

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.

More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate.

We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.

I'm a high school history teacher who got lucky.

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.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Most teachers have no say in their schools' decisions about hiring, promotions, firing, budgets, pay levels, curriculum or scheduling. This lack of control is a big reason they leave the profession.

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

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

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.

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

I was going to become a teacher.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.