Scott Morrison Quotes

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

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

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

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

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

Children are there to go to school and I absolutely support their rights to have views about the world and I absolutely support them expressing themselves, but not during school.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

I teach.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

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