Frank McCourt Quotes

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.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

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

Teachers know how to improve education.

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

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

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 have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

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

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

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

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

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.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

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.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

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

I was an elementary school teacher.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.