Gordon Ramsay Quotes

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

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 wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

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

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

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

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

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.

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.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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.

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

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'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

Teachers know how to improve education.

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.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.