Education Reformer Gifts

'Ms. Peters, hold all calls. I'm busy implementing yet another hastily conceived and unproven education innovation.'

Michael Gove at the Head Teachers' Conference: 'Mr Gove. We're not angry, we're just disappointed.'

"No textbooks. I'm strictly Web-fed."

'Rather than learning how to solve that, shouldn't I be learning how to operate software that can solve that?'

'Lessons have been learned.'

'I think we're being educated for failure...'

'In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of tenure.'

'A focus group of classmates, that I assembled, think you can't teach.'

"We've created a safe, nonjudgmental environment that will leave you child ill-prepared for real life."

'The trouble with education is everyone knows how to teach, but nobody knows how to learn.'

"I can't believe a mother was jailed because of her kid's truancy."

Private Schools' Guide - 'Oh look! This one offers a course in hypocrisy.'

'Our school computers are one year old. How can we be competitive in the job market if we're being trained on obselete equipment?'

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

'My teacher doesn't give numerical or letter grades. She gives emoticons.'

'Sorry son. You're not special. You've just got crap teachers.'

'I wouldn't be tardy if the school had wheelchair access.'

"I don't get it. If it's an aptitude test, why didn't they let me use my apps?"

'So everything's in the cloud now? Your papers, homework, presentations? What about that textbook you have?'

'Hey... the way things are going, at least they're learning a skill they may need later in life.'

"They don't want smartphones because phones know more than the teachers."

What it will take to give all our children a world-class education...money.

Studies Show Family Income, not race is better indicator of school success.

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

You said the answer is not as important as the process.

'Poverty' eating away aggressively at teachers cap

'Well, our panel of teachers failed your essay - But remember, it's the viewers' votes that count...'

Teacher handing out laptops.

"Society's failed you, son - 6 times to be exact�"

'I'm doing my bit to reduce overcrowding in the classroom.'

'Shouldn't you be marking our homework ?'

'I wasn't playing hooky -- I was fleeing the deteriorating public school system.'

A is for Acid, B is for Barbiturates, C is for Crack....

Authorities barge in on the cruelest kind of animal testing.

"We've found by applying just the tiniest bit of an electric shock, test scores have soared."