To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching…

“Even four-year college graduates earned higher starting salaries in 2000 than they do today, by about seven to eight percentage points—assuming they get a…

— Tyler Cowen

“He only knows great teachers can bore into someone else's mind like this -- only they have this kind of power. Maybe that's why…

— Stephen Davenport

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the…

— Michael Gove

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

— Douglas Coupland

“Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we…

— Ninive Clements Calegari

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

— Milton Berle

I used to take the kids in groups and, just for my own creativity, just start to play acoustic guitar and role play with…

— Peaches

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to…

— Margaret Whiting

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

— Andy Hargreaves

The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow…

— Noam Chomsky

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I…

— Steve Wozniak

“Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are…

— Barack Obama

It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for…

— Pharoahe Monch

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great,…

— Christina Aguilera