“And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!”— Spider Robinson, amazon.com
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”— Mark Twain, books.google.com
“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to dest…”— Abbie Hoffman, amazon.com
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”— Kavita Ramdas, mtholyoke.edu
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”— Plato, amazon.com
“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“College is corrupt as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. They’re charging people more and more. You have this system of indulgences, you have this priestly (professorial class) that doesn't do much work. And then you basically tell people that if you get a diploma you’re saved, otherwise you go…”— Peter Thiel, bloomberg.com
“We're spending billions of dollars protecting countries that should be paying us to do the job yet we can't build roads in our own cities. We can't build schools in our own communities. I've been to China numerous times, and everywhere you look there are cranes reaching toward the sky. The Chinese b…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I’m very concerned about the 46.5 million people living in poverty, and the great majority of middle-class Americans who can barely afford their homes (or have lost them). I am very concerned for the people who can’t pay for the education of their children. In short, I am concerned for the people wh…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“There is no reason the federal government should profit from student loans. This only makes an already difficult problem worse. The Federal Student Loan Program turned a $ 41.3 billion profit in 2013. These student loans are probably one of the only things that the government shouldn’t make money fr…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I’m not as concerned about the kids growing up in wealthy communities, where high property taxes have allowed them to build great schools, hire the best teachers, and provide all the supplies they need. Those schools are doing fine. In many urban areas, however, schools must fight for every tax doll…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Kids need to learn that success requires persistence. Self-esteem should come from overcoming challenges and surviving the hard knocks of trying to be better.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Forget that self-esteem stuff; we need to start challenging kids. We need to allow them to fail when they don’t work hard.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Our national educational system was never intended to be limited to the three R’s, history, and science. It was designed to produce well-rounded young people capable of prospering in the world. In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and l…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Education has to be run locally. Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top are all programs that take decisions away from parents and local school boards. These programs allow the progressives in the Department of Education to indoctrinate, not educate, our kids.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“From my father and my uncle I learned the value of work and the value of a good education. From my own experience I learned what happens when you put them together.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.”— Barack Obama,