School Administration Quotes

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

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.

The movement for the democratic idea inevitably became a movement for publicly conducted and administered schools.

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

I may try and get into education. I may open a school, and that is my ultimate dream. Opening a school will give education to children, who are the future of our country. If we can educate them in a proper way, I think that will change the future of the country.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Through the post-war era, including the teachers’ union movement, the authority of the principal has in fact been reduced to a shell.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.