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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

I wanted to be a teacher but I was a lousy student one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.