Layla Moran Quotes

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

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

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.

I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

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

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

The first rap that I wrote was about my Maths teacher, and as expected, he didn't like it, but the students loved it!

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.