Eli Broad Quotes

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

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'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

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

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

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

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.