My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I...

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

It’s weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It’s like they’re friends or something.

A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.

I’ve managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,” she announced with some small sense of achievement. “I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still...

Ask yourself: ‘Do I feel the need to laminate?’ Then teaching is for you.

It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid who didn’t work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he...

That’s not to say that elementary teachers are not important, but we know we have a shortage in the math and science areas.

We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have...

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.