Teacher Recognition Quotes

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.

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

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.

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

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

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

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

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

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

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

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

When I campaigned for governor, I was clear about where our priorities must lie: Opportunity for New Mexico students and long-overdue recognition of New Mexico educators and staff.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Great teachers should be rewarded.

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

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

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.