Albert Shanker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
-- Albert Shanker

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When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
-- Albert Shanker

#Children #School #Unions
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
-- Albert Shanker

#Education #Swimming #Use
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
-- Albert Shanker

#Hope #Children #School
The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
-- Albert Shanker

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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
-- Albert Shanker

#Kids #Keys #Games
I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours
-- Albert Shanker

#Way #My Way
As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
-- Albert Shanker

#Teacher #Children #School

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Albert Shanker famous quotes

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