Education Quote by Sergio Leone

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

— John Philip Sousa

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When…

— David Brooks

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

— Louis Menand

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

— Noam Chomsky

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

— Geoffrey Canada

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

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

— C. S. Lewis

After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person…

— Benjamin Bloom