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Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

Great teachers should be rewarded.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.