Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Gordon Woods

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Charles Spurgeon

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Arthur Ashe

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Beverly Cleary

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Kevin Fletcher

We wanted to be able to take a librarian and turn them into a project manager.

Hal Sparks

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Jennifer Chiaverini

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Erin Morgenstern

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Gloria Steinem

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

James Lee Burke

God bless the Reference Librarians

Libba Bray

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.