Robert Morgan Quotes

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.

When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

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

However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

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

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

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

My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

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 miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

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. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.