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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect 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.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

We should be firing bad teachers.

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