Academic Quote by Gail Collins

“I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically why so…

— David Foster Wallace

“I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for…

— Wendy Davis

“For secretary of education there was Betsy DeVos, a fierce promoter of privatized schools and a wealthy lobbyist who raised ungodly amounts of money…

— Jared Yates Sexton

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens…

— Neal Stephenson

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

“Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and…

— Studs Terkel

“Every political leader says education is their #1 priority. Yet the relentless slashing of school budgets tells a truer story of the gap between…

— Stan Levenson

“From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Education isn't a problem until it serves as a buffer rom the world and a refuge from the risk of failure.”

— Seth Godin

Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds…

— Abhijit Banerjee

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate…

— Steve Inskeep

“But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind…

— Frank Peretti