3 December 2020 James S. Coleman The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don’t think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
3 December 2020 Earl Warren We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Hutchins Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Negroponte If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
3 December 2020 Morris Dees 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.
3 December 2020 Dominic Cooper I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
3 December 2020 John Grierson The very effect of the education they were given… was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
3 December 2020 Karl Kraus Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don’t come into the world.
3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined – and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
3 December 2020 Carl Lewis I don’t feel I’m qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
3 December 2020 Mary Astell Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
3 December 2020 Rutherford B. Hayes I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
3 December 2020 Rutherford B. Hayes Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation’s schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it’s unfortunate.
3 December 2020 Jane D. Hull 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.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Hutchins My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
3 December 2020 Solomon Ortiz Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation’s standing worldwide… and our teachers know that.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman We’re first on executions. We’re 49th in funding public education. We’re in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we’re winning.
3 December 2020 Brad Henry Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
