Embarrassing Quote by Debalina Haldar

“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights or being…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it.…

— Henry Adams

“Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon compulsion; they regard it as intolerable drudgery. Others love the work: they hover around the…

— Jacob Abbott

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a…

— Albert Einstein

“The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

“Mundane education is regrettably prosaic”

— Cassandra Clare

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

“Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.”

— Sylvia Libow Martinez

“Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task…

— Barbara D. Bateman

“Far too many incidents are simply brushed under the carpet, as it is much easier to hold meetings and presentations than support those teachers…

— Frank Chalk

“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching, the one…

— Daniel Pennac

“Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated to use…

— Thomas Sowell