Administrators Quotes



The United States has the highest ratio of educational administrators and staff to actual teachers of any nation on Earth. Until the beginning of the 20th Century, the term “principal” meant “principal teacher”. One of the teachers of a school was chosen as the principle teacher and he or she would teach as well as supervise the other teachers. My the 21st Century, most principals had assistant principals, counselors, curriculum, security personnel and few of them ever teach students. Kantor’s suggestion was to have educational administrators also teach for some part of their time to increase the teacher student ratio and give administrators current actual classroom experience.


Flexner’s ideas influenced American universities, and the movement towards tenure was one of the manifestations; another was that many of the best private universities have as the highest administrative authority the faculty senate not administrators. See {634252} for one political ramification of scholars governing a University. One school faculty senate might have been responsible for an American President running for office.


Taft was making his first appearance as the newly appointed Governor General of the Philippines. Prior, the country had been administered by General Arthur MacArthur, father of General Douglas MacArthur, and some military officers and a few civilians, and the results had been quite poor—not unlike the administration of Iraq after the Iraq War at the beginning of the 21st century. However, unlike the Iraq situation, Taft admitted our failings and explained them, as shown in this quotation. He learned fast and had good instincts and developed a cadre of excellent administrators who got along very well with the people and did a good job.