Education Quote by Steven D. Levitt

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward…

— Thomas Friedman

“Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence…

— Jeffrey Benson

“Social scientists generally agree that students’ families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student performance than…

— Diane Ravitch

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

— Linda Darling-Hammond

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

— William Bennett

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they…

— Jean Piaget

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think…

— Alice Moore Hubbard

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

— Scott Hamilton