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“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”

Matter Government School Teacher Like You Locals Agents School Teachers

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.”

Men Government Kids Law Young Parent Attitude Teacher Please Young Man Mortification Change Your Attitude

Book:I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.”

Government Father Teacher Areas Behaviour

Author:C. L. R. James

“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

“Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.”

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”

Way Government Teacher Truth Is Computer Newspapers Online Competent Cds Databases Government Work

Author:Clifford Stoll

“When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.”

Helping Government Support Teacher Discipline Bureaucracy Reduction Government Bureaucracy Good Discipline

Author:Michael Gove

“Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.”

Source: The View From The Ground

“Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.”

May Government Evil Teacher Teaching Economics Criticism Presses Foolish Regulation Petty Cripples Government Regulation Uninformed

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.”

Government Wanted School Interest Teacher Involved High School Civics History Teacher

Author:Olivia de Havilland