Matt Mead Quotes

My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.

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 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.

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

We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

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.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

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.

The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

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

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

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

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.

We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.

Doling out punishment constantly [to civil servants] would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes’.

We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.

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.