Shannon Sharpe Quotes

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I was an elementary school teacher.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'

I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.

Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.