Barack Obama Quotes About Teachers

• Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Father, Men

  Barack Obama's Father’s Day speech, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2008.

• And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals". Barack Obama's speech at the Take Back America 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, www.ontheissues.org. June 19, 2007.

• I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Teacher, School

• I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. July 25, 2004.

• That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, 4th Of July, Men

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

• Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, New York, Cheer

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

• If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Teacher, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, People, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Successful, Lines

  Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

• I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Math, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Teacher, Needs

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

• We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Struggle, Fall

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

• If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, School, Boys

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teacher, Kids

  "Dissecting The Lies In Obama's $447 Billion "Shock And Awe" Reelection Ploy". Interview with Mike "Mish" Shedlock, www.businessinsider.com.au. September 9, 2011.

• Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Nurse, Police

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Teacher, School

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.154, Canongate Books

• My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.politico.com

• I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.politico.com

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