In high school a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean in junior high I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously I was terrified of math.

Teach love generosity good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows the children will be educating the parents.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher but he was also a history and political science teacher and since he was my hero I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

History is the only true teacher the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I think the British people are very very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge 'tis born with us and is inseparable from our Being but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia and we didn't have any money we just survived on happiness on being a happy family.

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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.