Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Teaching

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Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, Democracy, May

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.31, RosettaBooks

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, Differences, May

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, Men, Hands

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Kurt Vonnegut

Father, War, Teaching

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

Kurt Vonnegut

Jobs, Teaching, School

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching, Intelligent, Class

"Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.