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  • Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

  • Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

    Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press
  • Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

    Teaching   Home   Two  
  • The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

  • The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

    Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.
  • Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

    Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”
  • It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

    Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.37, Grove Press
  • Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

    "Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.
  • American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

    Doors   World   Wonder  
    "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
  • With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  • American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

    Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books
  • I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia.

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  • 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 sense that American education can be deemed a success.

  • Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

    George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press
  • One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

    Home   Views   People  
    Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.88, Vintage
  • There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

    James Truslow Adams (1930). “A Searchlight on America”, London : Routledge
  • The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

  • American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

  • How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

    Zero   Children   Kids  
  • what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

  • Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

    Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.
  • Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

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  • Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

    John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
  • The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

    "Ranting Again". Book by Dennis Miller, June 1998.
  • As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

    Tree   Feelings   Forests  
  • Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

    Education   School   Mean  
  • Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

    "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".
  • [Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush's administration.

    Source: www.npr.org
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