Robert Musil Quotes

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

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

It's time to start putting actually the students first and not anyone else.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.

I want to encourage students during school hours to express their views, to discuss their views in the classroom or the playground.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.

I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.

Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

You can have the nicest academy in the world, it doesn't make any difference, it's all about the people. Our job is all about the people.

When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.

The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.