American education Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to…

— James Heckman

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the…

— Luther Standing Bear

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish.…

— Nicholas Kristof

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

— Alice Eve

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism…

— Mohammad Marandi

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active…

— Mohsin Hamid

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources…

— Amartya Sen

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

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this…

— Walter E. Williams

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes…

— Benjamin Rush

“However, not only are fortunes equal in America, equality extends to some degree to intelligence itself. I do not think that there is a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville