Economy Quote by John Taylor Gatto

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

— Davis Guggenheim

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

— Al Franken

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

— William Allen White

If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens.

— Guy Standing

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

— Bob Riley

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with…

— Ed Markey

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

— Jim DeMint

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

— Elliot W. Eisner

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

— Maria Montessori