Educational quotations:
The teacher should never
lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may
take refuge in profane soliloquies; if a woman, she may follow the
example of one sweet-faced and apparently tranquil girl - go out
and gnaw a post.
William Lyon
Phelps, Teaching in School and College
He who can, does. He who
cannot, teaches.
George Bernard
Shaw, Maxims of Revolutionists, 1903
He who can, does. He who
cannot, teaches. He who cannot teach, teaches PE.
Suggestion from an Ofsted inspector
Teachers are overworked
and underpaid. True, it is an exacting and exhausting business,
this damming up the flood of human potentialities.
George B.
Leonard, Education and Ecstasy
My education was
severely disrupted by the outbreak of World War II. It had
actually taken place sixteen years previously, but I was still
very upset about it.
Barry Cryer, at
the Cambridge Union, quoted in The Times, 1984
Eric: When it came to
education, my father wanted me to have all the opportunities he
never had.
Ernie: So what did he do?
Eric: He sent me to a
girls' school.
Eric Morecambe
& Ernie Wise, The Morcambe and Wise joke book, 1979
O vain futile frivolous
boy. Smirking. I won't have it. I won't have it. I won't have it.
Go find the headmaster and ask him to beat you within an inch of
your life. And say please.
Alan Bennett,
Forty Years On, 1968
Stand firm in your
refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I
assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz, Social
Studies, 1981
Got full marks on the
Geography test today. Yes! I am proud to report that I got twenty
out of twenty! I was also complimented on the neat presentation
of my work. There is nothing I don't know about the Norwegian
leather industry.
Sue Townsend, The
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence PeterCanadian writer (1919 - )
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets the answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey (Deep thoughts)
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, reorganise."
Simon Jenkins on Tony Blair's proposed reform of secondary schools, The Times, 14 February 2001
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