94 Quotes by Betsy DeVos

Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

The media has had its fun with me.

Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.