Concerned Quote by Bainbridge Colby

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

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000…

— Arne Duncan

Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.

— Jim Justice

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

— Charles Best

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to…

— Michael Bennet

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher.…

— Bill Richardson

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

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

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

— Evan Esar

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

— Anonymous

Good teachers have joined Presidency from different parts of the country and even abroad. We have got idealistic teachers, and we are relying on…

— Ashoke Sen

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

— Michael Bennet