Casey Affleck Quotes

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I quickly learned that teaching students was far more complicated than managing adults. Why, you may ask? Here are three simple reasons: Your employees are paid to listen to you, students are not. In business, employees are selected based upon a search and interview process. Teachers do not select their students. In business, an insubordinate employee is fired. An insubordinate student is merely one more challenge for a classroom teacher.

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

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.

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.

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 tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

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

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.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

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

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

I wasn't a very good teacher.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

I went to public school up until junior high.

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

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

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

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