Colleagues Quote by Charles Best

We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.

— Betsy DeVos

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

— Charles Best

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in.…

— Phil McGraw

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

— Charles Best

I'd listened to my colleagues in the teachers' lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and…

— Charles Best

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a…

— Charles Best

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education…

— Bill O'Reilly

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create…

— Dan Simmons

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

— Jim Rohn

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished…

— Diane Watson

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a…

— Frederick Lenz