When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Teachers know how to improve education.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

All of my music teachers gave up on me one by one because I couldn't read music.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

Teachers are heroes.