American Quote by Sydney Brenner

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may…

— Elizabeth Kenny

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline…

— Terry Bozzio

Education is the virtue that liberate man from mental slavery

— Shaquille Tomlinson

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science…

— Edward Condon

“Beware the purists, the doctrinaires. It has been by the empirical method largely, by way of trial and error, that we have come so…

— David McCullough

“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the…

— William H. Calvin

“Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.”

— Wendell Berry

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones…

— Jamie Dimon

“A man needs his experience in order to be educated.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…

— David Denby

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the…

— Dick Gregory

American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up…

— Chris Sacca