“Today, I don’t have the cane to back me up and children are so different.”

“They get away with too much. Once upon a time, it was ‘Mother may I go? Now it is, ‘Mother I am going.’”

“In my day, teachers in elementary school did not aim for so much. There were fewer subjects taught and they were taught well. —Bermuda Sun, January 16, 1965

“You just passed out of school and went out to teach. Nobody stopped you. I don’t think I wanted to do anything else. But then there wasn’t anything else unless you wanted to serve in somebody’s kitchen.”

“What’s the use of teaching French if they [students] can’t speak English?”—The Royal Gazette, December 16, 1975