Education Reformer Mugs

'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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It says 'break glass' but it doesn't say what glass!'

"We're a failing school so you'll fit in perfectly."

"It was a matter of vital strategic importance for the company ! We had to develop our own MBA graduates breeding in-house."

Michael Gove at the Head Teachers' Conference: 'It's your own time you're wasting Mr. Gove.'

'Anybody else want to know why we have to do this dumb assignment?'

'Shouldn't you be marking our homework ?'

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

Teacher handing out laptops.

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

'Poverty' eating away aggressively at teachers cap