Education Quotes
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”
“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.”
-- Morris Dees
“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”
-- Munshi Premchand
“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.”
-- Bobby Scott
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
-- Albert Einstein
“The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
-- James Baldwin