The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Even four-year college graduates earned higher starting salaries in 2000 than they do today, by about seven to eight percentage points—assuming they… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I finished high school and enrolled in my local community college. I got ten credits out of the way. Ever since Twilight… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Positive psychology is the study of what constitutes excellence in individuals, communities, and workplaces. It incorporates the study of productivity, resilience, motivation,… — Margaret Greenberg Copy Share Image
Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the… — Tom L. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I'd request one and all to look out for the silver linings… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t take long to figure out that veteran homeschoolers are, overall, very independent and strong-minded. Chances are you could poll half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of… — Flea Copy Share Image
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and… — Juan Manuel Marquez Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you… — Rodney Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“A University of Exeter study showed that people who have control over their workspace design are happier at work, more motivated, healthier,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“An education for freedom (and for the love and intelligence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So… — Owen King Copy Share Image
