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Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

I think we have to get back the value of behavior that is consistent with being taught: that's to say, respecting teachers, listening, and not always expecting your opinion to take precedence.

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.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.