Education reform Quote by Lisa Scottoline

“He said the purpose of public education isn’t to serve the public, it’s to make a public. Like Dewey believed, the purpose of public…

— Deborah Kenny

“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 inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while…

— Gaston Caperton

“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

“He’d experienced it as a private trauma. Failure in American schools was demoralizing and to be avoided at all costs. American kids could not…

— Amanda Ripley

“The stated purpose of schools is to educate the kids. But there is no external pressure to do this well.”

— Paul Graham

“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

“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.”

— Peter Lynch

“Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers”

— Robert Kiyosaki

“That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.”

— Richard P. Feynman

“Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were…

— Diane Ravitch