Educational Quotes · Page 8

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

— Anonymous

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class…

— Michael Gove

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public…

— Wendy Kopp

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions.…

— J. William Fulbright

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or…

— Nazanin Boniadi

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting…

— Wesley Pruden

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the…

— Robert Webb

A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and…

— Victoria Woodhull

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational…

— Robert Hass

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn…

— Alan Watts

With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are…

— Frederick Lenz

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

— Andre Previn

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational…

— Dean Kamen

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational…

— Erin Gruwell

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they…

— Paulo Freire

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

— John Katzman

I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now…

— Murray Bookchin

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power.…

— Harry S. Truman

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

— Robert Anton Wilson