Quotes About Educational Reform

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

Andy Hargreaves

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

Amit Ray

#3. East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Eva Gabor

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

John Dewey

#5. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

Nadya Suleman

#8. 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

#9. The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

Ramakrishna

#10. 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

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

Michael S. Roth

#12. The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

Mac O'Grady

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Melina Marchetta

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

John Cage

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

Auliq Ice

#18. 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