American education Quote by Diane Ravitch

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…

— Diane Ravitch

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

— Anonymous

“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

— Mona Charen

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

— Diane Ravitch

“...the multitudinous substitutes for indigenous culture cannot grow. Having no roots, they can only age and decay. Studious, sincere youth retires, defeated. American youth,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as…

— Abraham Lincoln

“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and "self-expression" in…

— Robert Hughes

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing…

— Paul Lutus

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

— Jedediah Bila

Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his…

— Sheldon Richman