"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 Schanker
President of the United Federation of Teachers (1964 - 1984) President of the American Federation of Teachers (1974 - 1997)