Evan Bayh Quotes

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.