You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.