Ambition Quote by Jonathan Kozol

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary,…

— Aristotle

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce…

— Hannah Arendt

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

— Plutarch

Conservatives believe in individual choice for all parents and pupils, regardless of social or economic background, and our Better School Passport would tackle these…

— Damian Green

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

— Abhijit Banerjee

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

— Rajneesh

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

— Temple Grandin

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

— Solomon Ortiz

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

— John Henrik Clarke