I learned life from some good teachers.

I'm a big fan of teachers.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

We are our children's first teachers.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

Teachers' unions don't act in the interest of most teachers.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'