Educational Reform Reform Quotes

#1. Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Michael S. Roth

#2. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make
and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

#3. Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

Auliq Ice

#5. Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

John Cage

#6. To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don't study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

Michael Masser

#8. I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#10. To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Sri Aurobindo

#11. We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

Daniel Libeskind

#12. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Andy Hargreaves

#13. Help only comes to those who ask for it.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Ahmed Zewail

#15. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#16. At last someone takes me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

#17. POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey

#21. If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

Neil Peart

#22. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Amit Ray