Bainbridge Colby Quotes

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.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

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

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

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.

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

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

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

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 can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

… 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.

We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

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

The teacher crisis is something we are really worried about during the byelection in Mount Albert. I counted, across a month, seven teachers I identified just in my area who were all leaving - not the profession but Auckland.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

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.

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

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

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.