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“I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!”

John Glover · Teacher

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A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

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Simon Newcomb

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

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Roald Hoffmann

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

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Baltasar Gracian

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

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