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Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

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

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.