Frank McCourt Quotes

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

The coach is first of all 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.

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

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.