Educational Authority Quotes

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Government has ever been careful to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I like the fact that they were fighting for the historical tradition of England.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Instill respect for teachers.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.