Dick Cavett Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

  Dick Cavett

  Teacher, Sorry, Home

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company

• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

• All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

  Dick Cavett

  Mother, Teacher, Dad

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