The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.