“Sometimes the teacher needs to learn from the student. And sometimes you need to fall very far to finally see the light.”— David H. Goodman, Jerome Schwartz, Rumplestiltskin, Robert Carlyle, imdb.com
“Mr. Anthony DeMartino: And why are we going to engage in simulated combat? Daria. Daria: Because no high school education is complete until you've chased your fellow students around the woods with toy guns?”— Glenn Eichler, Daria Morgendorffer (voice), Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
“Every class has a student like that, one who'll study what he needs to without supervision, who you know will one day attend a top college and get an excellent job. A child who's innately capable.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”— John Dewey, amazon.com
“The intellectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God; and therefore, until this nature is cultivated, and enlightened, and purified, neither opulence, nor power, nor learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the holiness of God's altars, can ever be safe. Unt…”— Horace Mann, amazon.com
“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.”— Horace Mann, amazon.com
“You were made to learn. Be sure to learn something every day. If you were to stop eating, would not your bodies pine and famish? If you stop learning, your minds will pine and famish too.”— Horace Mann, sites.google.com
“I’m not one to insist that a man can’t possibly make it without a lot of formal education, since my own formal education pretty much stopped when I graduated from Independence High School in 1901. And then there was a twenty-two-year gap, while I worked on a farm and as a railroad timekeeper and ser…”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“'But the people choose their own rulers,' remarked Errington reflectively. 'Ah, the poor people!' sighed Thelma. 'They know so very little, and they are taught so badly! I think they never do quite understand what they do want — they are the same in all histories — like little children, they get bew…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and lawgivers are ever at their wits' end devising. The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education. Why not add compulsory recreation? Our forefathers forged chains of duty and habit, which bind us notwithst…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“What we call chauvinistic education—in the case of the French people, for example—is only the excessive exaltation of the greatness of France in all spheres of culture or, as the French say, civilization. The French boy is not educated on purely objective principles. Wherever the importance of the p…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“All right, kids, hurry to class. Last one to class, first one on welfare. It's your choice.”— Patty Lin, Paul Feig, Frank Kowchevski, Steve Bannos, imdb.com
“Schools often fail to simultaneously train students how to be skeptical of claims & how to embrace the weight of evidence.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“The rise of flat-Earthers in society provides some of the best evidence for the failure of our educational system.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“In school, students cheat because the system values high grades more than students value learning.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com