Daniel Handler Quotes

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

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.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.