Our students are not broken. Our teachers are not broken. It's our system that has been broken.
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
Teachers have been some of the most important people in my career.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.
When I was 13 I would come to school with makeup and nail polish and I had teachers who would say, 'We can't teach you and you're not allowed in class.'
I was in a TV show called 'Orrible' with Johnny Vaughan, I did the last series of 'Teachers', I did two or three different characters on 'The Bill'. Just stuff like that. The 'Inbetweeners' was the first thing that really took off.
Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.
My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.
I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.
Teachers are important in this world.
If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.
On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.
I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.