Albert Shanker Quotes

"There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities."
-Albert Shanker

"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve; it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy."
-Albert Shanker

"We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons."
-Albert Shanker

"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
-Albert Shanker