Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Through the post-war era, including the teachers’ union movement, the authority of the principal has in fact been reduced to a shell.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

… 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.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.

I will comprehensively review the education system with my team to create a stable, caring, and inspiring environment for students, parents, teachers, and principals.

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

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.

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

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

If anything, we hope that DonorsChoose.org is going to be a prompt, a nudge in the side of the public school system to improve and to start delivering these materials and experiences that students need and to make it easier for teachers to innovate.

Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.

I used to have to borrow textbooks from my mate in another class. When he was away I'd have no textbooks and the teacher would say, 'Anh, you have to go to detention.' I didn't want to tell her my mum didn't have the money.

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.