Teacher Salaries Quotes

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

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.

Fifty dollars per month will support one teacher. We ought to begin this school year with at least one hundred teachers, supported by regular monthly contributions, according to the ability of the people of every community in the States above named. Shall this result be secured? We appeal to the clergy of every denomination; we appeal to every church; we appeal to every community. Let committees be appointed to secure monthly subscribers. Let alert clubs be organized among the children. Let sociables be held, and made profitable for this object. Volunteer to do these things. Do not wait for an agent to come along, as there is no time to lose. We urge you to do this by the highest considerations of patriotism, humanity and religion.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

If I were President, … schoolteachers would be paid more than movie stars and basketball players.

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

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.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

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

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

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.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

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

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

Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.