Education Quotes
“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.”
“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”
-- Michael Moore
“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”
-- Michael Morpurgo
“I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.”
-- Jane D. Hull
“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
-- G. M. Trevelyan
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.”
-- Michelle Obama