Education Salaries Quotes & Sayings

Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future. — Victor Hugo

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one. — Thich Nhat Hanh

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. — Jeffrey Gitomer

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle. — Peter Brimelow

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge students to develop a strong degree of moral awareness. Professors, deeply involved with the enterprise of undergraduate instruction, are committed to their students' intellectual growth and insist on maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor. Career services keep themselves informed about the broad range of postgraduate options and make a point of steering students away from conventional choices. A policy of noncooperation with U.S. News has taken hold, depriving the magazine of the data requisite to calculate its rankings. Rather than squandering money on luxurious amenities and exorbitant administrative salaries, schools have rededicated themselves to their core missions of teaching and the liberal arts.
I'm kidding, of course. — William Deresiewicz

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead. — Anna Pavlova

The law isn't that simple, and the practical damage will be great. State pensions are underfunded by $111 billion - a 500% increase from 1995 and up 75% in the past five years. About one in four state tax dollars already finances pensions, which is more than Illinois spends on education. Yet the court accuses politicians of shortchanging pensions. Politicians are to blame for the state's fiscal woes, but mainly because they colluded with unions to promise unsustainable benefits in return for political support. Less than 40% of the increase in the state's unfunded liability since 1995 is due to inadequate payments. The rest is due mainly to benefit growth and faulty actuarial assumptions such as investment rate of return. The 2013 reforms at issue capped salaries of — Anonymous

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. — Jessica Lynch

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars? — Diane Ravitch

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show. — Graham Chapman

Correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers - most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people - all the more insidious and insincere. — Azar Nafisi

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. — Peter Brimelow

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. — Brian Andreas

If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action. — Emil Cioran

I don't waste time. I move. I finish things. I don't try and do things to the nth degree. I know what's important and what's not. I've really learned that. That's a judgement I've learned, what really matters. — Gail Kelly

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Andrew Ross makes sense of this sad artifice [decreasing academic pay] by explaining that academics of all ranks, along with artists, are uniquely willing to tolerate exploitation in the workplace. Ross claims that scholars' readiness "to accept a discounted wage out of 'love for their subject' has helped not only to sustain the cheap labor supply but also to magnify its strength and volume. Like artists and performers, academics are inclined by training to sacrifice earnings for the opportunity to exercise their craft." (p. 64) — Frank Donoghue

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age ... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ... — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep. — Paulo Coelho

I give away thousands of paintings for free. — Banksy

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin. — A. L. Kennedy

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes ... Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense.
Sam Seaborne, West Wing — Aaron Sorkin