Emma Gonzalez Quotes

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

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

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

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 have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

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

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

I've never had the patience of a 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.

I wanted to be a teacher.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

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

I'm committed to working with teachers.

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

I was going to become a teacher.

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.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

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.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

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.

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.