Alexandra Petri Quotes

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.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

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

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

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.

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

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

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

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

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.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.