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Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings. -- Amit Ray
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. -- John Garrett
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. -- Maggie Gallagher
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses. -- Stephen Pagliuca
I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students. -- Michael Bennet
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. -- LZ Granderson
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area. -- Anne Sullivan
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told. -- Jeffrey Toobin
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did. -- Steve Guttenberg
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses. -- Beverly Cleary
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love. -- Taylor Mali
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me. -- John C. Reilly
It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books. -- Karen Hesse
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things. -- Amit Bhatia
There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school. -- Tom Vilsack
I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening. -- Thomas Perez
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment. -- Dan Shechtman
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it. -- Matthew Quick
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. -- James Cash Penney
As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people. -- Patti Smith
My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. -- Lauren F. Winner
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. -- Robert Breault
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. -- Darwin D. Martin
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. -- Antonio Tabucchi
It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. -- Michael Bennet
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do. -- Dominic Monaghan
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. -- Miriam Defensor Santiago
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see. -- C. S. Lewis
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker. -- Tracy Morgan
It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul. -- Rafe Esquith
I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated. -- Chris Baio
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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