Couple Quote by Carolyn Hax

People who purposefully mislead the public about issues as important as our kids' education have absolutely no place at the table.

— John Bel Edwards

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can…

— Isocrates

“Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly "educated" people are unschooled.”

— Milton Friedman

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

— Erin Gruwell

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever…

— Richard Mitchell

“I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student…

— Diana Peterfreund

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.

— Susane Colasanti

“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

— Raghuram Rajan

“Every one of us in Teach for America was working so hard and creating results in our classrooms, but if our kids didn’t go…

— Paul Tough

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley