Brian Lara Quotes

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

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

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

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

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

I love the classroom.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

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 believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.