There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

In the depth of the near depression that he faced when he came in Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago these funds saved nearly 20 000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

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.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong for like him she has been accused of mental inferiority and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Our success educationally industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

In inner-city low-income communities of color there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.