« All Education Quotes · Diane Ravitch's Page
Education Quotes by Diane Ravitch
- Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
- American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may…
- Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
- There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest…
- If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the…
- American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
- The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
- What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students…
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe