Authority Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

— Georges St-Pierre

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you.…

— Mark Van Doren

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age…

— Chris Hedges

I've always had a problem with authority since I was a little kid. Like when the teachers would tell us to do something, I…

— Jon Fitch

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are…

— Thomas Sowell

As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

— Louise Wilson

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and…

— H. L. Mencken

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

— Louise Wilson

Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult…Many young…

— Jim Brown

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be.…

— Frank Herbert

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

— Cesar Chavez

“Because, sir, teaching young gentlemen has a dismal effect upon the soul.It exemplifies the badness of established, artificial authority. The pedagogue has almost absolute…

— Patrick O'Brian