Bruce Coville Quotes

I was an elementary school 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.

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.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

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

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

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

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.

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

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

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

The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.

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.

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.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

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

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

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 always wanted to be a 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.