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?

Mark Evans

Otherwise, I am going to get into trouble.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Dave Johnson

I was in a lot of trouble as a kid.

Dan Kelso

I thought it was important that passed. Without that, we would have been in trouble as a town.

Olin Browne

I thought it was for 58, ... I've always had trouble with math.

Tom Curle

He's getting to the rim, but he's still having trouble elevating, which is frustrating for him.

Olin Browne

If we see cold, wet conditions, I'm in trouble.

Mike DeRoche

If that water had come up much faster, we would have been in trouble for sure.

Charles Kettering

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

Zygi Wilf

Regardless of what is found in the investigations, we will take the appropriate measures for those who were involved.

Jim Cabucio

Regardless of the outcome of a Friday night game, each Saturday morning, Kyle could be found teaching our youngsters the fundamentals of the game.

John Byrd

re-emphasized all the reasons the jury found him guilty in the first place.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

David Pollock

Starting yesterday, we activated our volunteers and found how many and which ones would be available.

Debbie Cox

Someone must have found them and put them there.

Pat Summerall

somehow found out I'd got the liver. But they said they didn't care, didn't want to meet me.

Dennis Hastert

Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman,