Quotes About America's Education System

#1. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. It's in them anyway.

J.D. Robb

#3. Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Geoffrey Canada

#4. Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Herbie Hancock

#5. Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Rod Stewart

#6. I write ... sonnets ... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Italo Calvino

#7. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Marjane Satrapi

#8. Did you need something?"
Seth's attention shifted back to me. "Do I need something to walk over here?"
My fingers curled inward. "Yeah, I think you do."
"I missed them together," Deacon said ... "They're so warm and fuzzy, don't you think? So cute.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Greenspan

#10. She usually loved this band, but today their cheerfulness made her want to crash the car.

Janet Fitch

#11. If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

Anita Roddick

#12. Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Barack Obama

#13. And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. Trading is not easy, and it takes years of conscientious practice to master the necessary skills. It also takes developing positive habits to succeed in trading. There is no shortcut to this, and no one should dream about getting rich overnight by stepping into the trading business.

Jody Samuels

#15. Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

William Arthur Ward

#16. Take your bath, pet," he finally managed to say. "You're safe from me tonight. I may look, but I won't touch. Go on.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

Wendy Kopp

#18. Richard took one look and said, 'Ali, you are too young to work in the States.' He then drew a line on the wall. 'When you are that tall we will send you,' he said. Even today I would not reach that line. I was disappointed, of course. I

Ali Al-Naimi

#19. For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

Rachel Cusk

#20. Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

Rafael Cruz

#22. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

Fareed Zakaria

#23. Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

Seymour Papert

#24. You would have been a light in the dark for so many people.

E. Lockhart