Quotes about Education

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.

The denial of emotion is a terrible thing; what takes time is learning that the positive path is the education of emotion, not it's uncritical indulgence, which actually locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation. Likewise, the denial of rights is a terrible thing; and what takes time to learn is that the opposite of oppression is not a wilderness of litigation and reparation but the nurture of concrete, shared respect.

He who is educated by anxiety is educated by possibility… When such a person, therefore, goes out from the school of possibility, and knows more thoroughly than a child knows the alphabet that he demands of life absolutely nothing, and that terror, perdition, annihilation, dwell next door to every man, and has learned the profitable lesson that every dread which alarms may the next instant become a fact, he will then interpret reality differently…

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

To earn more, you must learn more.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.