America Quote by Dorothy H Cohen

“Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A healthy country…

— Charles Krauthammer

The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's…

— Dorothy Moore

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the…

— Luther Standing Bear

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

— W. Edwards Deming

“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that,…

— John Mortimer

“Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships — the one-day variety or longer —…

— John Taylor Gatto

Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light…

— Jim Trelease

“No system of education can be perfect which does not teach the principle of righteousness and faith in God. Learning has not saved the…

— George Q. Cannon

I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick…

— Tenzin Palmo

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read…

— Oliver DeMille