Todd Barry Quotes

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

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 was an elementary school teacher.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

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 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.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

I would not, by any means, turn the school room into a motion picture theater, I would use the picture as a means to enlist the pupil’s interest.

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.