Education Quote by Derek Bok

“Notwithstanding the intense pressure on faculty members to publish, nationwide surveys indicate that they value teaching as highly as scholarly research.6 For every research…

— Clayton M. Christensen

In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68%…

— K. Patricia Cross

“Some say that my teaching is nonsense.”

— Lao Tzu

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just…

— Dana Goldstein

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

— Andy Hargreaves

“most Americans said teaching was a hard and important job, but many of them, including teachers and teaching professors, didn’t seem to believe it…

— Amanda Ripley

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try…

— Page Smith

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching…

— Taylor Mali

“Students, well intentioned or otherwise, are poorly served by the idea that students and teachers are intellectual and social equals and that a student’s…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

— Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

I think good teachers are underpaid.

— Peter Brimelow

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

— Evan Esar