Quotes about Education

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Critics of home-schooling hate the idea of home-schooling and the freedom from the government school monopoly that it represents. Their attacks on academic success are just a transparent attempt to divert attention from their own failings.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

In the Westerville, Ohio, school district, for example, a union contract provision stipulated that a coin flip would be used to determine seniority if two teachers were hired on the same day. One might be a great teacher, the other awful; it makes no difference. That is how much importance unions place on teacher quality.

It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.