Education Quote by Sue Klebold

“There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.”

— Lemony Snicket

“All great athletes essentially come to a fork in the road where they have to change their approach to succeed. It's a sign of…

— Walt Frazier

“In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The…

— Amanda Ripley

“...if the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss…

— Douglas Wilson

“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and…

— E.M. Forster

“If the NCAA ran local law enforcement, whenever they pulled over a drunk driver, they would impound the car and let the driver hop…

— John U. Bacon

“This was ugly. It was dumb. It was the willful, self-destructive abdication of common sense in favor of petty point scoring. It was the…

— Keith Taylor

“Jocks were pretty much exempt from the standards that bound the rest of us. Teachers and administrators humor them because it's in everyone's interests…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind…

— Frank Peretti

“If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving…

— Helen DeWitt

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are…

— Frank Deford

Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for…

— Jeffrey Kluger