Teaching Vocation Quotes

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

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

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.