Mentoring Students Quotes

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

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