21st century Quote by Richard Dawkins

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant…

— Nigel Short

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes…

— Charles Babbage

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of…

— Henry Giroux

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as…

— Richard Rogers

If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities from the…

— Damian Green

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

— Jilly Cooper

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London],…

— Samuel Johnson

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of…

— Charles Babbage

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then…

— Malcolm Bradbury

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

— Johnny Vegas