Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Teachers

• I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Teacher, Stalking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.371, Penguin

• Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teacher, Regret

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Men, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

• Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Jail, Records

You May Also Like:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Margaret Fuller

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leo Tolstoy

Herman Melville

Mahatma Gandhi