Laura Bush Quotes

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

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

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

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.

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

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 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.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

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