Michael Bennet Quotes

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

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

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

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

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

I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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.

I wasn't a very good 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.

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

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

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

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

Teachers are performers, just like I am.