Frank McCourt Quotes

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

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

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

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'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

The most experienced teachers are frequently promoted right out of the classroom!

I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.

Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.

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