Mike Butcher Quotes

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

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.

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.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

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

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

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 wasn't a very good teacher.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

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.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

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.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.