Barack Obama Quotes

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.

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.

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.

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

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

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.

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

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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

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

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.