Bitsie Tulloch Quotes

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

I have been personally victimized by organized disruption of a public lecture on a university campus - at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State University, and Rhode Island's Providence College, to name only a few.

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.

By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I'd never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

School-houses are the republican line of fortifications

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

The student protests of the 1960s were partly the outcome of the hypertrophy of the university and the resulting shortcoming in higher education.

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.