Patti Smith Quotes

I was an elementary school teacher.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

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.

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 mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

Me, a teacher? No way!

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Instill respect for teachers.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

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

I love the classroom.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

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 wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.