Conor Oberst Quotes

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.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

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

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

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

I wanted to be a teacher.

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

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

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 was going to become a teacher.

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

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

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

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.

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.

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

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

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.