Educational Administration Quotes

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.