John Lewis Quotes

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.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

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 think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

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.

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

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

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

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

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.

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

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

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