Quotes About Current Education

#1. Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly.

Philip Kitcher

#2. Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

James Tooley

#3. In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

Milton Friedman

#4. Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

Adele Devine

#5. My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Arthur Ashe

#7. The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

Ken Robinson

#8. Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

Robert Burns

#9. Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

Benjamin Hoff

#10. Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

Ashish Patel

#11. I was the kind of woman who got the guy in the books. But not in real life. Never in real life.

J. Lynn

#12. CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Argus Hamilton

#13. Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job?

Chris Brogan

#14. The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

Bill Gates

#15. A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.

Raymond Chandler

#16. A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

Kim Ki-duk

#17. Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Brian Tracy

#18. American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Diane Ravitch

#19. The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.

Alexander Hamilton

#20. It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Frank Shorter

#21. Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan

#22. No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.

Jack Ma

#23. Where I am today, it is my current destination, I was preparing for this my whole life. Today's decision and persistent action will take me my future destination.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#25. You know you're successful when your wants and needs are in harmony with your current situation.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

Marshall McLuhan

#27. I have three phobias ... : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

Tallulah Bankhead

#28. In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocket books and paradigms.

Scott Parker

#29. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Andy Hargreaves

#30. The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500.

Luis Von Ahn