School Textbooks Quotes

#1. Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

Paul Vitz

#2. When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

Craig Brown

#3. School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.

Paul Vitz

#4. By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#5. When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Samantha Power

#6. Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Jacob Bronowski

#8. To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.

Elizabeth Kostova

#10. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

Mike Schmoker

#11. The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Josie Maran

#12. School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, ...

Alan Kay

#13. I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

Jeremy Corbyn

#14. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#15. This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back -

Stephen King

#16. Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

Terry Savage

#17. Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?

Kent Hovind

#18. There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#19. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

June Jordan

#20. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris

#21. Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Martha Graham

#22. The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

Claude C. Hopkins

#23. Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Henry V. O'Neil

#24. I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

David Sedaris

#25. The school should teach a class on deciphering obscure images in bad photography. Amanda's photos could make up the textbooks.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#26. What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Joey Ramone

#27. As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

#28. Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

Brad Stine

#29. I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Johann Lamont

#30. In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#31. How I long for more time ... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

Dan Brown

#32. When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Ken Ham

#33. I already gave my best.

William Hung

#34. Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

Robert Ballard

#35. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Mark Batterson

#36. I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Jonathan Kozol

#37. The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.

Charles Benoit