Alex Sharp Quotes

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

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

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

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.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

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.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.