History Teacher Sayings

#1. 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

#2. I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

#3. It was like he'd sprung fully-formed from my eighteen-year-old fantasies, the hot History teacher who just couldn't help himself.

Abigail Barnette

#4. When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Russell Tovey

#5. My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

Laura Carmichael

#6. You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

Christa McAuliffe

#7. a history teacher. I work,

Danielle Monsch

#8. I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

#9. My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

Owain Yeoman

#10. What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

Graham Swift

#11. When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

Dwight Yoakam

#12. My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

Henny Youngman

#13. It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

Thom Andersen

#14. My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

Mallory Ortberg

#15. As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Mike Trout

#16. When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

#17. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Richard Dreyfuss

#18. If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

Roald Dahl

#19. Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?'
This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#20. My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.

Cary Fukunaga

#21. I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

John Irving

#22. It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't, you weren't superfluous, there is no duplicate of you to come and replace you at your mother's side, you were unique, just as every ordinary person is unique, truly unique.

Jose Saramago

#23. I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Boris Kodjoe

#24. The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?

David Mitchell

#25. I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.

Rick Riordan

#26. All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.

David Hawkins

#27. History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides

#28. I've had the best history teachers of the world,
you know.
Now, I am the best.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 28, 2016

Petra Hermans

#29. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Richelle Mead

#30. We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

David McCullough

#31. Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

James W. Loewen

#32. There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Charles T. Munger

#33. [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

I.L. Peretz

#34. I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

Ice Cube

#35. I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

Howard Zinn

#36. The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

#37. Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics ... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

Philip Guston

#38. History is the teacher of life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

H.G.Wells

#40. Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the bygone, and I'm prone to waxing wistful over the end of something even as I'm living it--cherishing, hanging on.

Lisa Anselmo

#41. In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.

Frederick Franck

#42. I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Billy Joel

#43. The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11)

Confucius

#44. There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.

Frederick Lenz

#45. I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Elizabeth Olsen

#46. I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

Frida Giannini

#47. Mom: Why aren't you doing very well in history? Billy: Because the teacher keeps asking about things that happened before I was born!

Various

#48. Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.

Oliver DeMille

#49. Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Michael Dirda

#50. By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Ronee Blakley

#51. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.

Walton Goggins

#52. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion

#53. The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner's lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Anna Myers

#54. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#55. History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

Will Durant

#56. I wish I didn't want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius.

Merritt Tierce

#57. History shows that erections happen at the worst possible times, and they stick around until someone else notices them. Often, it is either a librarian or an English teacher, like Mrs. Edith Mitchell.

Andrew Smith

#58. Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn't taken a liking to that. She decided to send Joe to the principal to discuss why he was so sleepy, which Joe hadn't taken a liking to.

Belart Wright

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

Rosa Luxemburg

#60. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan

#61. History belongs above all to the man ... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#62. In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

Jonathan Kozol

#63. There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Boyd K. Packer

#64. Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

David McCullough

#65. Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Paulo Freire

#66. 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.

David Soul

#67. Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

Henry Adams

#68. No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.

Cal Thomas

#69. Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

H.G.Wells

#70. I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Malorie Blackman

#71. Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Jerry A. Coyne

#72. We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

Bruce Springsteen

#73. If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.

Brad Schneider

#74. We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Ani DiFranco

#75. Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

Florian Znaniecki