Mark Twain Quotes

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Teaching is performance art.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

I quickly learned that teaching students was far more complicated than managing adults. Why, you may ask? Here are three simple reasons: Your employees are paid to listen to you, students are not. In business, employees are selected based upon a search and interview process. Teachers do not select their students. In business, an insubordinate employee is fired. An insubordinate student is merely one more challenge for a classroom teacher.

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.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

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

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

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 best teacher is an entertainer.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.