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?

Kelsey Jakupcin

Our parents really support us. They come to every one of our matches.

Scott Smith

Our parents get to stay in some five-star hotel, and we're staying in a hostel.

William Raspberry

Parents who were not successful in school still have the power to teach.

Dennis Wharton

Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.

Gerhard Schr

Otherwise, I have been shaped by parents and I am proud of that as well.

Bill Cosby

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

Bill Cosby

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

Bill Cosby

All parents experience the same problems.

Bill Cosby

We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.

Bryant H. McGill

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Dave Ramsey

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Aleister Crowley

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

Cornel West

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

David Weinberger

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Debbie Ford

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Doug Stanhope

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

Colin Powell

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

Douglas Coupland

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?