“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.”
Education is about more than classrooms and diplomas. These quotes challenge conventional thinking about learning, teaching, curiosity, and what it actually means to be educated — which, as several of these thinkers point out, has little to do with memorization.
“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.”
“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.”
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
“Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.”
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.”
“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”