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.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
In true education anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy the blunder of a servant a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto then must not be confined to matters of religion education and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Positive rights are the right to shelter the right to education the right to health care the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
You know nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can but then by God do something. Don't just stand there make it happen.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.
If you know how to read you have a complete education about life then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.
As people do better they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done whether you like it or not.
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies and that's education.
The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
TRUE a little learning is a dangerous thing but it still beats total ignorance.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted it is worse.