Terry Pratchett Quotes

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

I quickly learned that teaching students was far more complicated than managing adults. Why, you may ask? Here are three simple reasons: Your employees are paid to listen to you, students are not. In business, employees are selected based upon a search and interview process. Teachers do not select their students. In business, an insubordinate employee is fired. An insubordinate student is merely one more challenge for a classroom teacher.

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

I love teaching; I love little kids.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Professors gravitate to the bright, well-prepared students. They are easier to teach, and they appear to profit most from instruction, which may simply mean they are most like the professors. But in the increasing pluralism and decreasing professionalism of colleges and universities in the next decades, the master teacher is likely to be the one who can provide context for many kinds of students.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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 have always been good with kids, as I used to teach drama to kids.

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

I liked being a kid. I liked being a student.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Instill respect for teachers.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).