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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. -- John Wooden
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. -- B. Carroll Reece
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. -- Jonathan Kozol
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership. -- Ludwig von Mises
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. -- Dabney Coleman
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. -- Dick Cavett
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. -- Chuck Schumer
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people. -- Dan Shechtman
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. -- Bill Ayers
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. -- Lord Acton
I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession. -- Wendy Kopp
Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind. -- Nancy Gibbs
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough. -- Arne Duncan
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money. -- Jesse L. Martin
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor. -- Richard Dawkins
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves. -- Rush Limbaugh
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. -- Colin Firth
My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
Teaching is a passionate profession. -- Andy Hargreaves
Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching. -- Stephen Sondheim
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. -- Chuck Schumer
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. -- Andy Hargreaves
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. -- John Taylor Gatto
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. -- Mark Kostabi
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. -- John Maeda
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. -- Ken Robinson
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. -- Claude Levi-Strauss

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