“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
“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
“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
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
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. — Diane Ravitch 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
“Got it. You're fourteen. I'm proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American education system. But I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Invincible Copy Share Image
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“…I’d let those entering (grad) students in on my secret—higher education is all about perseverance. It has nothing to do with smarts… — Melanie Wells Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money… — Robert Reich 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
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
