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Quotes About Accountability

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
~ Rudolf Nureyev
The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.
~ Harry Wong
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
~ Marva Collins
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
~ Diogenes
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
~ Maria Montessori
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
~ Bill Gates
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
~ Todd Whitaker
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
~ William Gurnall
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
~ Marva Collins
Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
~ Diane Ravitch
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
~ Elliot W. Eisner
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
~ Frank Rizzo
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
~ Jeb Bush
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
~ Charles Kennedy
You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects
~ Vinod Rai
If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it
~ Mathilde Kschessinska
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.
~ Sidney Sugarman
Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.
~ Tony Danza
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.
~ Raheem Jarbo
Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.
~ Raheem Jarbo
Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
~ Min Kim
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
~ David R. Brower
If you're in command, it's always your fault.
~ Amitav Ghosh