Teaching Quality Quotes

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

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

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.