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?

Sheryl Garrett

Partnerships between industry and education are so very important in the lives of our youth. With this program, students will have a wonderful opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience in careers pertaining to the automotive industry.

Ed Bryant

Our legal careers got more stellar with each passing year.

Matt Paul

People have to be accountable for their records, and what they did early in their careers is informative. Secretary Culver will have to explain the two years he spent in the employ of his client as a lobbyist.

Mike Maddux

Some guys just take longer to get their careers going than others.

Ray Willis

Our careers are in jeopardy right now because of parents who are making false allegations. We haven't done anything and we're going to fight.

Warren Miller

Otto was successful at multiple careers and always kept his mind active. He was a great athlete, yet he'd always wear a cravat or necktie; he dressed to the nines. But he was always gracious.

John Branch

Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.

Aaron Gagnon

Players who are going to move on in their hockey careers show up in the big games. To be a great player you have to be a great player in the playoffs.

Bebe Neuwirth

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.