Janet Reno Quotes

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

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'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

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

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

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

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

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.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.