educational passion Quotes

I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

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.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.