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.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

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.

This is at the heart of all good education where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues constantly checking for understanding and growth.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.