Education Theorist Gifts

I'm going to grow up to be an educator. Excellent, dear. Teaching is a noble profession! No, Nana. I'm going to be an educational expert. Coming up with theories on how to run schools. Teaching is much too hard! Amen!

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

"I know this is not a proper job for a PhD, Mom, but I have student loans to repay."

'What's play?'

Coronavirus Impact on Children

"This statement from your headmaster says that you can easily get a good degree...your bank manager says you can't."

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

Toy Shops and Educated Children

"Should we put down what we think is right, or what we think you think is right?"

'The reason the core curriculum seems so ambiguous is that we dot really have a core curriculum.'

Budget

"Coronavirus, masks requirements, falling test scores, student violence - we need to be able to pray in school!"

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

"In my class, I'm not interested in grades. I'm interested in you becoming a better person!"

'Lessons have been learned.'

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

'Child labor laws don't apply to homework, Jimmy.'

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

6th Grade Do-You-Own Research Fair

'Exams were harder before the Renaissance.'

New dunce caps

Personnel. Now, I want you to forget everything you learned in school. I'm way ahead of you!

"Congratulations! It's a pass."

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

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

"Maybe it's not a wrong answer - maybe it's just a different answer."

I channeled John Dewey. He says if you want to be a good teacher, don't teach reading and writing. Teach students.

Southwick College: Basically, for the most part, usually - a meritocracy.

'Who should be contacted in case of an accident? Why, 911, of course. And these people are going to be teaching my children.'

"I'm holding George back this year because he's failed to forge a personal style."

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'Intellectual bigotry...Go ahead, blaspheme my holy scriptures, the media loves it...'

'Today in school we learned how to blame everything on the United States!'

Go to M.I.T., they said. You'll do great things, they said.

'He has a learning disability all right - television!'

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