Education Quotes
“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”
“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”
-- William Glasser
“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.”
-- James Hillman
“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”
-- Edward Thorndike
“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”
-- Benjamin Carson
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”
-- Sandra Day O'Connor