Pranab Mukherjee Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

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 often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I taught high school students Spanish.

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.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

I was an elementary school teacher.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

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

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.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.