John Green Quotes

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

I love the classroom.

At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

I was an elementary school teacher.

School was not a place I enjoyed.

I just didn't like going to school.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I definitely identify as a nerd - love being in a classroom.

School is something that I drive to finish.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

Back-to-school videos always do really well for me.

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.