John Warner Quotes

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Would you make it [teaching] more lucrative, increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future Presidents, Senators, and Congressmen.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

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

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.

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

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.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

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.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

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.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

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

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

Paying teachers more improves student achievement.

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.