Top 21 Quotes About Teacher Unions
#1. The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Peter Brimelow
#3. Dionysus invented wine, which so impressed his father Zeus that he promoted Dionysus to god. The guy who invented prune juice, by contrast, got sentenced to the Fields of Punishment.
Rick Riordan
#4. So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.
Thomas Sowell
#6. The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
Steve Jobs
#7. I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#8. I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union ...
Andres Segovia
#9. The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
Pankaj Mishra
#10. If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
Martin Fleischmann
#11. This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?
Dada Bhagwan
#12. The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
Alice Miller
#13. They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.
Chris Christie
#14. I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.
Shea Hembrey
#15. I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.
Earl B. Russell
#16. [F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
Pericles
#17. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Rupert Murdoch
#18. I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#19. I guess that's what makes lust so bittersweet. The feeling is beautiful, but the effort it takes to deny it is way too hard.
Colleen Hoover
#20. We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.
Chris Christie
#21. Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.
Russell Brand
