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The worst thing we do to our children is hand them to the government to be educated.
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| A Liberal believes that schools should teach children about self esteem, the environment, diversity, etc. A Conservative believes that schools should teach children reading, writing, math and history. | ||||
| If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. | A Nation at Risk, 1983 | |||
| The last great innovation to transform classroom instruction occurred during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson: the invention of the chalkboard, around 1801. Since that time, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a student from the mid-1800’s would immediately recognize a modern classroom setting. | Andrew Coulson | |||
| The American system of higher education has become an insane assembly line -- bankrupting families to process hapless students through an incoherent, haphazard and mediocre liberal arts curriculum. | Camille Paglia | |||
| Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it's invisible. | Camille Paglia | |||
| You can bail out a bank; you can't bail out a generation. You can print money, but you can't print knowledge. It takes 12 years. | Dean Kamen | |||
| TV--chewing gum for the eyes. | Frank Lloyd Wright | |||
| And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. | H.L. Mencken | |||
| To the television program we need only bring an empty mind and sit torpidly while the display of sound and image fills us, requiring nothing of our imagination. The book, on the other hand, demands cooperation from the reader. It insists we take part in the process. | Isaac Asimov | |||
| The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. | Jacques Barzun | |||
| The attempt to see that every child gets a world-class university prep education is a great way to ensure that no child gets a world-class university prep education. | Jerry Pournelle | |||
| This is not Lake Wobegon. Half the children are below average. [But]... our education system is designed by smart people who don't spend a lot of time with people who aren't smart. The result is disaster. | Jerry Pournelle | |||
| [The] costs of higher education (direct costs and lost income) are now nearly equal (in net present value) to the additional lifetime income derived from having a degree… this situation has all the earmarks of a bubble. | John Robb | |||
| The quality of education in this country has gone down steadily since the formation of the Department of Education. | Neal Boortz | |||
| ...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. | Richard Mitchell | |||
| Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. | Richard Mitchell | |||
| Fifty-odd years ago [circa 1930] astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous former superstition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. It is now the orthodoxy of many, possibly a majority. This pathological change parallels the decay of public education. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| The education of a man is never complete until he dies. | Robert E. Lee | |||
| Based on the substantial amount of money pumped into the [DC public schools] and the resultant test scores, I do not believe that money alone is going to solve the problem. | Sen. Dianne Feinstein | |||
| Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. | Stephen Vizinczey | |||
| Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational 'excellence,' I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. | Thomas Sowell | |||
| Our liberties are safe until the memories and experiences of the past are blotted out... and our public school system has fallen into decay. | Woodrow Wilson | |||
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