Amos Lee Quotes

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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

I'd like to think I'm a great 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'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

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 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.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

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.

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.

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

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

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

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

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.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

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

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

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.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

A teacher should have a creative mind.