Albert Shanker Quotes

#1. The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.

Baha'u'llah

#2. There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Albert Shanker

#3. I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

Albert Shanker

#4. School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

Albert Shanker

#5. Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

Walter Darby Bannard

#6. When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Albert Shanker

#7. As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

Albert Shanker

#8. The tourist Venice is Venice.

Mary McCarthy

#9. All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Steve Earle

#10. [Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#11. The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

Albert Shanker

#12. The exclusivity of a strongcity is enough for us to enhance our analytical sophistication

Anyaele Sam Chiyson