Teacher Value Quotes

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.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

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

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

A teacher is better than two books.

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

The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.

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.

Great teachers should be rewarded.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

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

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise - and attract the best people to the job.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.