Quotes About Education

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Experience is a thorough teacher.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.