"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher." ― Simon Newcomb Topic(s): Teacher More From Simon Newcomb "My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men." "What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed." "In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate." More In Teacher "There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s."― Tori Amos "My brother’s a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do."― Dominic Monaghan "I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t."― David Eddings