S. E. Hinton Quotes

I wasn't a very good teacher.

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.

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.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

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.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the 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.

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

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

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

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

Teaching is in my blood.

I love to teach; that's paramount.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

That's one thing that's a passion for me: teaching.