The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities so that head teachers can decide what's truly important because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

A lot of children like I did move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get detention worrying about letting people down your parents teachers.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Misdirected focus on paperwork on procedures and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Education is the key to success in life and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

I am a big believer in education because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad she started dating one my teachers!

When I realized I was having trouble reading I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

When I was in nursery school the teachers asked me y'know 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like 'What exactly does your husband do?'

In my school people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look if they're cool they get respect.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change because they're not going to have that imagination.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

In America the schools have become too permissive the kids now are controlling the schools the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was 'Oh for God's sake what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.