Education Quotes by Walter E. Williams

9 Education quotes by Walter E. Williams

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Walter E. Williams’s concise reflections on education advocate for liberty and economic insight. In nine brief statements, he makes a case for learning that empowers individuals through free‑market principles.

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Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students…

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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…

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If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

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As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major…

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A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes…

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Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to…

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Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's…

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Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?"…

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School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of…

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Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

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Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of…

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More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

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Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target… Wal-Mart exists and prospers…

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When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated…

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Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's…

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If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of…

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Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since…

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Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say…

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Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express…

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