David Sedaris Quotes

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

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.

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

I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.

Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

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

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

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.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.

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

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.

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.

In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

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

I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.

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

Teachers alone can't educate young people.