Wendy Kopp Quotes

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

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.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

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 loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

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.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.