Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Mayor Baptiste

Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they have done all they can do.

Erica Abbett

Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no indication that the leak was occurring outside.

Kathleen Tierney

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary,

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Peter Goldmark

I went to the government to seek help from our counterterrorism experts, ... The counterterrorism officials then in the White House refused to give us any help.

Mayco Villafana

It is a significant hardening of the infrastructure. It is a recognition that - from everything the experts are saying - that the forecasts are for more intense storm seasons, (which) has made us rethink what we need to do.

Bill Collins

It has been a great year so far. It's been a real joy to see how our students have benefited from these experts in their fields.

Merrill Goozner

It is ludicrous that the FDA could not find highly qualified experts in these fields who did not have ties to the manufacturer.

Amani Toomer

It feels real good. We accomplished a lot. The so-called experts had us finishing last in the division. That goes to show how much they know.

Sanoe Lake

There are so many beginners in the water. My friends will be like, 'They don't know what to do,' but I'll try to give them a hand. We were all there once.

Aaron Hungerford

One of the good things is we don't tailor to just the experienced fishermen. I would say 90 percent of our customers are beginners, and not just children with no fishing experience. Probably 60 percent are adults who are beginners and don't know what to do to start out.

Chuck Miller

We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it

Denis Waitley

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

Sue Johnston

He's such a gentle person, very patient, and he can give information to kids and beginners in a way that they understand. He has good recall of details. You know, like the third toe is always purple on the left foot, that kind of stuff.

Stephen Gray

I look at the Web as an opportunity to have a million doorways to the Christian Science Monitor. I think of it as a progression from one end, where it's free, to the other end, where it's paid. The pipeline has to be really big at the out end to bring in lots of beginners if you want to maximize the number of subscribers at the other end.

Ed Youmans

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

Caterina Fake

It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.