Laura Mvula Quotes

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.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

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

I wasn't a very good teacher.

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

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

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

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.

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

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

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 was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two 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 taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

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

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.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

I see myself as an educator.