Quotes About Authority

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you're not in it, there's a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.