A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it

Quote by Emile Capouya

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The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition...

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition...

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must...

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must...

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their...

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their...

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie....

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie....

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as...

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as...

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that...

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that...

We learn not in the school, but in life

We learn not in the school, but in life

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but...

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but...

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie....

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie....

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the...

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I...

In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I...

Communism is like one big phone company.

Communism is like one big phone company.

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition...

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition...

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of...

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of...

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is...

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is...

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at...

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...