Hank Green Quotes

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

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

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.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

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.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

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

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 am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

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.

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

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

I love to teach; that's paramount.

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.

To teach is to learn twice.

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