1990s, Letter to the Union-Sun & Journal (1992)
“With respect to teachers' salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 6 The Role of Government in Education, p. 95
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Source: Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
On the low social regard for teachers.[Ghate, Chetan title=The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, http://books.google.com/books?id=kPYXpHSVbywC&pg=PA373, 13 March 2012, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-973458-0, 373–]
Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)
“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”
Source: Couples (1968), Ch. 1
In comparison, I only tinker with intellects already largely formed.
"The Dinosaur Rip-off", pp. 101–102
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2
“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”
Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers.”
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 21
Memoirs (1993)
Context: The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.