Student-Teacher Ratio Quotes

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.