Oscar Robertson Quotes

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

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

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

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.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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 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.

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

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

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.