Economist Quote by Andy Hargreaves

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

— Anonymous

I think good teachers are underpaid.

— Peter Brimelow

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

— Marva Collins

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

— Tenzin Palmo

With respect to teachers' salaries … Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined…

— Milton Friedman

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching…

— Taylor Mali

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

— James Forman, Jr

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

— Charles Best

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power…

— Winifred Holtby

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single…

— David Puttnam