1960s Quote by David Perkins

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.

— Stephanie Ruhle

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely…

— Niall Ferguson

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

“As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by 2019, and…

— Garret Keizer

“One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into…

— Seth Godin

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

— Ken Robinson

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't…

— J. B. Smoove

“Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged…

— Edward L. Glaeser

“While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the…

— Maria Montessori

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There…

— Camille Paglia

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in…

— Price Pritchett