Herb Trimpe Quotes

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

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

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.

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

I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

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.

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

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

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.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

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.

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

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.