TEACHER in Classic Quotes

1  Miss Nathalie Lord, one of the teachers, from Portland, Me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

2  At Hampton I received a warm welcome from teachers and students.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

3  Many became teachers who could do little more than write their names.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

4  Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

5  The greater part of the thirty were public-school teachers, and some of them were nearly forty years of age.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

6  As fast as any kind of teachers could be secured, not only were day-schools filled, but night-schools as well.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

7  One of the things that impressed itself upon me deeply, the second year, was the unselfishness of the teachers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

8  There was a great deal of joy expressed among the students and teachers, and I received very hearty congratulations.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

9  They had gone there, and in each case the teachers had found them so well prepared that they entered advanced classes.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

10  The improvement that has taken place in the character of the teachers is even more marked than in the case of the ministers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

11  In a few days practically all the students and teachers had left for their homes, and this served to depress my spirits even more.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

12  With few exceptions, I found the teachers in these country schools to be miserably poor in preparation for their work, and poor in moral character.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

13  What I have said concerning the character of the schoolhouses and teachers will also apply quite accurately as a description of the church buildings and the ministers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

14  With the teachers came some of their former pupils, and when they were examined it was amusing to note that in several cases the pupil entered a higher class than did his former teacher.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

15  In some way I managed to get on till the teachers learned that I was in earnest and meant to succeed, and then some of them were kind enough to see that I was partly supplied with second-hand clothing that had been sent in barrels from the North.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

16  One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

17  At the end of my second year at Hampton, by the help of some money sent me by my mother and brother John, supplemented by a small gift from one of the teachers at Hampton, I was enabled to return to my home in Malden, West Virginia, to spend my vacation.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.