Classroom Quote by David E. Cooper

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the…

— Robin Winks

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And…

— Derek Bok

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good…

— Henry Giroux

We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward…

— Christine Gregoire

“What is different today, and especially worrisome when it comes to the creation of educated citizens, is how the protective, swaddling environment of the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when…

— Ravi Zacharias

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously…

— Allan Bloom

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.

— James Forman, Jr

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

— Hermann Hesse

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

— Charlie Sykes