Education Quote by James Wolfensohn Download Open image “It is possible to have a public education system that works.” — James Wolfensohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Education system Possible Public education
The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives. — Mary Burke Copy Share Image
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
