Competition Education Quotes

#1. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Bill Gates

#2. I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it.

Kathy Cloninger

#3. Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

Barry Larkin

#5. Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Mary Everest Boole

#6. I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

Cindy McCain

#7. All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Gary Johnson

#8. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.

K.A. Brill

#9. Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Ernest L. Boyer

#10. Today education has become a training ground for competition.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

John Grisham

#12. Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

S.A. Tawks