Tony Danza Quotes

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

I'm committed to working with teachers.