Culture Quote by Charles Best

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

— Charles Best

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

— Marva Collins

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether…

— Charles Dickens

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their…

— Carol S. Dweck

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the…

— Sugata Mitra

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children…

— Edith Hamilton

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education sector, it…

— Lucio Tan

Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write - they're communities. They're like second families to our students.

— Miguel Cardona

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

— Geoffrey Canada