“If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.” — Samuel L. Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is… — E. C. Osondu Copy Share Image
American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“MR. WEINGLASS: Between the date of your birth, November 30, 1936, and May 1, 1960, what if anything occurred in your life?… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
[Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were… — Claudio Sanchez Copy Share Image
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education… From television, the child will have learned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is American education? What should our students be taught? Is hip-hop something that is worthwhile and useful for students to learn?… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need… — Patty McGee Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading...the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
“[Charlie] Moon was trying hard to get a handle on this. Maybe he's got a PhD. What with pass-fail replacing conventional grading,… — James D. Doss Copy Share Image
“Children and adolescents, being relatively new to life, are naturally creative because they haven't been brainwashed, so to speak, by the conventional… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
“Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate… — Paul Greenberg Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Above them, one of the blackened television screens brightens, and there's an announcement about the in-flight movie. It's an animated film about… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“...the multitudinous substitutes for indigenous culture cannot grow. Having no roots, they can only age and decay. Studious, sincere youth retires, defeated.… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system,… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and… — Paul Lutus Copy Share Image
“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein,… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
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