For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. … There was no Plato without Socrates, and no John Coltrane without Miles Davis.


"America 101", speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Council of Great City Schools (27 October 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 237

Bill Moyers Quotes

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male...

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male...

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male...

For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male...