“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?” PeopleWorldWayGivingShouldYearsTwoThreeGivenEnemyRichFireTeacherCostResourcesInnovationAverageOperationsExtrasThree YearsOrgansNew ThingsFiniteJointsInventingReplacementsYears Of LifeWorld Health Author:Bill Gates
“The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.” MindParentTeacherEasierAverageConformityParents And TeachersAverage Minds Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures
“Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.” ChildrenHomeAgeParentSoundTeacherDevelopmentTenHundredResponseAverageEightWarmClassroomTwelveNestsPsychiatristPsychologistChild DevelopmentParent ChildAbc's Book:Homestyle Teaching Source: Homestyle Teaching
“In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.” WellsMayTeacherTeachingCollegePerformancesRateAverageSatisfactionQuartersInstructorsAbove Average Author:K. Patricia Cross
“There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.” ThinkingWayPoliticalLevelsTeacherTeachingUnderstoodEverydayAverageTension Author:Dana Goldstein