Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I was an elementary school teacher.

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

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

I just think it would be interesting. I already applied to be a substitute teacher.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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've never had the patience of a teacher.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

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

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

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 feel really good in the teacher role.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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

I wanted to be a teacher.

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

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

I would not, by any means, turn the school room into a motion picture theater, I would use the picture as a means to enlist the pupil’s interest.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.