I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.
I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.
My daughter became a teacher right out of college.
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
I've never been a teacher in my life.
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
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.
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
