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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 passionate profession. -- Andy Hargreaves
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
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
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
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people. -- Dan Shechtman
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. -- John Maeda
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. -- John Wooden
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
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
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 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
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
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
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

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