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“Every one of us in Teach for America was working so hard and creating results in our classrooms, but if our kids didn’t go…

— Paul Tough

“You and I are going to work our asses off, teach them shit over and over, risk our fucking lives for them, and they…

— Hope Jahren

“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.”

— Scott Anderson

“Sometimes our jobs as teachers is not to open their minds. Sometimes we have to thaw them.”

— Mike Murphy

“You can only solve what you have the courage to see. By learning, you are helping America to begin to conduct itself differently.”

— Dylan Ratigan

“We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we’d been taught by every person who’d ever used us for their own benefit.”

— Laura Wiess

“We must become what we wish to teach.”

— Nathaniel Branden

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them…

— Jim Hunt

“We can’t build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“We teach what we most need to learn.”

— Lee Lipsenthal

“Those who educate us can never be forgotten. Wherever we are, they will always be in our heart and mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When she finished, the white teacher, his face streaked with tears, tapped his boss on the shoulder, and like a television cop handing in…

— Paul Beatty