American education Quote by James D. Doss

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

— B. F. Skinner

“It is easier to land a man on the moon than to change the school system.”

— M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada

“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others…

— Richard Feynman

“They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant oafs with…

— J.D. Salinger

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“One of the greatest faults in modern education is overstructuring, which does not allow for play at every point in the educational process. -Edward…

— Dave Meier

“Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount…

— Laurie Nadel

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

— Henry Ford

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in…

— Richard Dawkins

“Conversely, some of the most educated idiots I’ve ever met have a master’s degree or PhD. They couldn’t pour urine out of a boot…

— Si Robertson

“More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education…

— Quinn Cummings