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To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.