Quotes About Education

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'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.

My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

Teaching is in my blood.

I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?