American education Quote by Michael Scheuer

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources…

— Amartya Sen

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't…

— Colin Powell

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this…

— Walter E. Williams

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

— Diane Ravitch

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it.…

— Robert Reich

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy…

— Michelle Rhee

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

— Lincoln Chafee

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in…

— Janet Napolitano

America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and…

— Ronald Reagan

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to…

— Raymond Chandler

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the…

— Jacques Barzun