Samira Wiley Quotes

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I just think it would be interesting. I already applied to be a substitute teacher.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I see myself as an educator.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.