A Quote by Frank McCourt

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Irish - Author
August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Chuck Schumer

We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.

Julian Treasure

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Patricia Reilly Giff

When I was teaching I'd go to some schools where no one wanted to dance - when they came into the room it was as though they were being punished. But I'd put on the loudest, the heaviest metal you could imagine and they loved it.

Arlene Phillips

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

Samuel Morse

I actually really liked teaching. I started teaching at UCB when I was in college. I would get someone to fill out an internship form or something so I would get the credit. But why did I start teaching? I loved it. I loved doing improv and loved UCB and wanted to be a part of that world and that community.

Zach Woods

I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

Alexi Zentner

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

Sarah Parcak

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

Anna Quindlen

I can honestly say that, growing up, it never crossed my mind that I could ever make anything. I could write articles about things, which is why I wanted to be a professor. I loved watching movies and writing about them and teaching them, but it never crossed my mind that I could make something.

Stephanie Savage

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Christina Baker Kline

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Paulo Freire

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

David McCullough

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

Mark Kostabi

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

Deborah Landau

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