21 Movie Quotes about Teaching with Audio – Page 2

Updated: May 6, 2026

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11 He'd been teaching the same rubbish for 30 years and I don't suppose he'd read a new book for 20 of those.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

12 I thought you were going to teach us how to fly. -That's what I'm doing. -Isn't there usually some flapping involved?

Julia Sawalha as Ginger; Mel Gibson as Rocky in Chicken Run

13 I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

14 Thanks. Oh, listen, would you be free in about five minutes for a surfing lesson? -I don't teach surfing lessons. -No problem. I'll sign up for whatever it is you do teach.

Timothy Van Patten as Max Keller in The Master (1984)

15 I have a nice house, a wonderful husband and you are slaving away teaching snot-nosed children their ABC's.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

16 You know, if I hadn't been so busy teaching, you and I would have been married by now.

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

17 It does not matter where you raise him. You must teach him the way of the ninja. It's the family tradition.

Quote from Revenge of the Ninja

18 Little rough on him, weren't you? When you take on the duties of a surrogate father, you take on a lot of responsibility. I know.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

19 Gunrunning and school teaching don't mix. Don't you know that?

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell in Dark Command (1940)

20 Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you.

Quote from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory