Quotes About Society

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

Ideas are fatal to caste.