Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

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.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Paying teachers more improves student achievement.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

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

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

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

… 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.

We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

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.