1930s Quote by Wynton Marsalis

“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book…

— Alfie Kohn

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing…

— Geoffrey Canada

I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government,…

— Michael Scheuer

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

— Ivan Illich

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

— John Glenn

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

— Blase J. Cupich

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial.…

— Anonymous

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly…

— John Taylor Gatto

“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the industrial revolution.…

— Robert Epstein

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational…

— William Bennett

I do know that the effect of the tremendous cutbacks on education that we're seeing are going to create a major problem for the…

— Ricardo Sanchez