“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”– William Glasser Related Quotes “My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.”– Freeman A. Hrabowski III “Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.”– David Guterson “Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.”– Brian Sandoval