Quotes About Educational Progress

#1. Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Nikki Giovanni

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

John Dewey

#4. The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Maria Montessori

#5. The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

Suzy Kassem

#7. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

Stephen Richards

#8. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

#9. The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Hassanal Bolkiah

#10. This dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors. They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.

Mark Twain

#11. She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.

Frances Hardinge

#12. There are ... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Sydney Smith

#14. The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

Seneca The Younger

#15. When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.

Marshall Sylver

#16. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Walter Lippmann