Best teacher Quote by Tracy Kidder

To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great…

— Tracy Kidder

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and…

— Rajinder Jhol

“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“...education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth of the…

— William W. Lewis

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers,…

— Tryon Edwards

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

— John Goodlad

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the…

— Diane Ravitch

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that…

— G. Stanley Hall

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

— May Sarton

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson