Quotes About Education

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

At school, before I left, I was making cake mixes and taking them to school, giving them to teachers and my classmates.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It's a requirement.

My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

I mean, I think all teachers are basically modern-day heroes.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

By fully committing to our public education system and engaging holistically from cradle to career, we can guarantee that all of our children in Georgia, no matter their needs, have the kinds of teachers and neighbors in their lives that my mother had.

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

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.

I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.

Our students are not broken. Our teachers are not broken. It's our system that has been broken.

Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: 'Lee has started to joke around a lot in class.' After that, it's a steady graph of decline, with the jokes increasing and increasing.

It was called 'The Surgery' at the time, but the 'Life Hacks' show was a very important place for me when I was growing up. I remember so many things that I didn't know how to talk to my teachers or my parents about; those hard questions that I had, they were answered on that show.

I'm a big fan of teachers.