H. L. Mencken 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.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

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.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

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

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

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.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

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.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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

I studied secondary education.

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.