“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!” EnoughGuyFoundJesusOpinionTeacherCrazyMembersNewsAdultsBiggerMajorityJewMinoritiesShySeniorHomosexualGood NewsPollsSantaSanta ClausNraBeing Shy Author:Bill Maher
“I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.” SchoolTeacherInvolvedDramaLuckyMembersProductionsBrilliantGet InvolvedChoir Author:Bronagh Gallagher
“Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.” WantHeartSoulTeacherMembersGet UpClockProductiveNeighborhoodAssetsFarmersCopAlarmsPlumberAlarm ClocksRanchers Author:Ted Nugent
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.” NeedsChildrenStoriesHomePoliticalReadingNationsBlackTeacherRevolutionMembersSittingDoctorsScientistExpertsNurseBlack WomenPhysicistCompetentBedtimeBiologistChemistElectronicsBedtime Stories Author:Frances M. Beal
“The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.” WayCertainGrowthPartySituationStudyTeacherStudentsMembersThirdsIndependentImpactCompareClassroomOrganisationThird Parties Author:Wendy Kopp
“As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.” YearsCountryStatesSupportTeacherGrowingMembersCongressFacultyStaffNew Teachers Author:Jon Porter
“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.” KnowsSchoolNamesParentCan DoRealizingDecisionRolesTeacherPromiseMembersOur ChildrenBest ThingsBoardsBest TeacherSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Mark Kennedy
“Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.” ChildrenGovernmentRunningSchoolRealizingCasesTeacherMembersInstitutionsUnionsWorkersBritainHospitalsPrivate SchoolTeachers Unions Author:Thomas Sowell
“So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.” LongCountrySchoolJobsTeacherStudentsMembersTestsUnionsInternationalTreatedScoreContinuingPublic SchoolPupilsTeachers Unions Author:Thomas Sowell
“I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.” GivingShouldWellsI CanSchoolFoundTeacherFiguresPositionMembersInterviewsContributionStringsComposerCommitteesSurveillanceMusic BusinessTransmitPosition Of PowerYardsticks Author:Mauricio Kagel
“My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It's why I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.” WellsStillsHomeWantedOpportunityLeftTeacherLandDadMembersConceptsMy FamilyMy DadPushingNot InterestedLand Of Opportunity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.” YearsArtSchoolTeacherMembersHigh SchoolYears AgoMy FamilyCamerasFamily Members Author:Steven Sebring
“I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.” BelieveChildrenProblemI BelieveInterestPayTeacherRightsGroupsProtectMembersOrganizationUnionsPrivilegeSupposed To BeOrganizedBehalfAdvocatingNational InterestsInterest GroupsRights And PrivilegesTeachers Unions Author:Michelle Rhee
“In Afghanistan, there have been a lot of teachers assassinated, schools are being blown up, girls are harassed and in some cases, attacked on their way to school. Even if the girls are able to get an education, they can dream big, they can think about how they want to become a member of parliament because they are now women members of parliament in Afghanistan, nobody is really sure how long everything is going to last.” IfsThinkingWayWantLongHas BeensDreamBigsAbleSchoolLastsGirlCasesTeacherMembersAfghanistanParliamentMembers Of Parliament Author:Deborah Ellis
“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.” ShouldMayChildrenParentFamilyTeacherMembersAdultsShould HaveCaringNeighborParenthoodFamily MembersGreat TeacherBest TeacherBeing A TeacherTeachers DayShort TeacherHappy Teachers Day Author:Joe Manchin
“The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.” ChildrenDoneSchoolPoliticalViewsPartyTeacherSeriousMembersUnionsDemocraticBlockBrandsReformChampionDamageDemocratic PartyCloutTeachers Unions Author:Juan Williams
“Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.” MeanInterestTeacherGroupsMembersUnionsDefenseBossInterest GroupsTeachers Unions Author:Peter Brimelow
“There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.” ThinkingShouldWritingImportantBookIdeasTeacherStudentsPlanetsMembersUniversityGood IdeasSpeculationOur PlanetGood WritersUtopian Author:Kurt Vonnegut