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Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet.

Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. But above all else, Rick considers himself a teacher.

But above all else, Rick considers himself a teacher. He taught his first travel class at his college campus in the mid-1970s — and now, more than 40 years later, he still measures his success not by dollars earned, but by trips impacted.

You are able to stream Rick Steves' Europe for free on PBS, Hoopla, and Plex.

Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Returning to Norway, I find my roots. My grandfather — famous in the 1930s in Leavenworth, Washington, as a rowdy ski jumper — was a Romstad. So, although my last name is Steves (after a step-grandfather), my blood is Romstad, and that branch of my family comes from a scenic valley called Gudbrandsdalen.

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It's only fitting that one of Rick's most popular catchphrases would serve as an iconic quote. He utters this phrase time and time again throughout the series, normally during moments of levity when he's either happy or cracking a joke.

As of Aug 30, 2024, the average annual pay for a Rick Steves in the United States is $129,175 a year.

Does Rick Steves speak any other languages? ›

But I struggle on, being the travel guy who basically speaks only English. If I spoke other languages, I undoubtedly would enjoy a deeper understanding of the people and cultures I visit.

Thus Cinque Terre has become the exemplar of what's called the Rick Steves effect, when a place gets into a popular guidebook, and now everyone visits. It's not a get-away anymore, and you may need another place to get away from it.

Albert Einstein

He was rewarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 due to his outstanding work. He is surely one the Best Teachers In The World.

Confucius is regarded as the teacher of all teachers. He was also labeled as the best teacher ever. He was born into a noble family in China. During those times, only the royals and nobility were allowed to learn and that too from government teachers.

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