Dictators Quote by Samantha Power

“Most of these student types are total frauds. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find out they don’t know something. They all read the…

— Haruki Murakami

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

“The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.”

— Albert Einstein

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

Many textbooks fail to present students with both sides of an issue. Students are being pushed toward an education that demonizes free enterprise while…

— Charlie Kirk

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

— Sarah Churchwell

“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy…

— Rafe Esquith

“Today so many creative and devoted teachers not only have to struggle against unimaginative administrations, fearful parents, and wearied colleagues, they have also to…

— Esmé Raji Codell

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

“So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning…

— Judy Blume

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power…

— Winifred Holtby