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There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher. -- David Puttnam
Segregation has no place in the education system. -- Richard Dawkins
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. -- Larry Niven
I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system. -- Jose Ferreira
I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value. -- Maajid Nawaz
I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable. -- Luis Guzman
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. -- Victoria Wood
I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you. -- Robert Kiyosaki
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. -- Drew Brees
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. -- Dennis Miller
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. -- Bill Lear
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. -- Ken Robinson
I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish. -- Kevin Nealon
We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential. -- Carly Fiorina
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. -- Yakov Smirnoff
Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market. -- Marco Rubio
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system. -- Ryan Gosling
We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy. -- Iveta Radicova
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
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. -- Michelle Obama
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom. -- George W. Bush
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. -- Michael Morpurgo
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. -- Fareed Zakaria
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message. -- Adam Rickitt
Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. -- Meg Whitman
Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization. -- Peter Drucker
The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. -- Andreas Schleicher
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill. -- Matthew Kelly
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina, -- Arne Duncan
The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system? -- Bill Maher
We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive. -- Bruce Brown
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. -- David T. Kearns
If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract. -- Shelley Berkley
California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world. -- Noam Chomsky
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine. -- Geoffrey Canada
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings. -- Madi Diaz
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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist. -- Patsy Mink
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. -- James E. Rogers
I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. -- Wynton Marsalis
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success. -- Alan Autry
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. -- Dennis Miller
Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss. -- Chael Sonnen
If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see. -- Michelle Rhee
So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system. -- Jeff Kinney
Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial. -- Noam Chomsky
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. -- Dalai Lama
Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama
In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. -- Chetan Bhagat
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system. -- Barbara Boxer
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken ? it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated. -- Sugata Mitra
I think every business should build on their strengths, and the strengths of Victoria are our clean, green agriculture; the strengths of Victoria are our strong education system. -- Denis Napthine
The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change. -- Rush Limbaugh
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. -- Alvin Toffler
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature. -- Sai Baba
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We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task. -- Chris Hayes
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression. -- T.I.
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. -- Walter Isaacson
In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47. -- Eddie Griffin
Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences. -- Ban Ki-moon
When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number of factors - including tax structure, employment base, infrastructure, education system, etc. -- Ronnie Musgrove
Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. -- Donald Trump
Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars. -- Elizabeth Warren
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. -- Thomas Sowell
We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development. -- Christine Gregoire
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. -- Sugata Mitra
The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money. -- Ben Stein
Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist -- Rafael Cruz
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions. -- Noam Chomsky
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. -- Paul Ryan
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. -- Bill Gates
Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks. -- danah boyd
We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum. -- Franklin Graham
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness. -- Dana Goldstein
The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street. -- Barack Obama
I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system. -- Michelle Rhee
Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right. -- Bill Gates
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. -- Donna Shalala
What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens. -- Marc Veasey
You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts. -- Jon Tester
Youve got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts. -- Jon Tester
Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry. -- Naveen Jain
To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead. -- Karl Rove
When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary. -- Jeanette Winterson
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system. -- Wendy Kopp
Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney. -- Bill Maher
The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers. -- Jim Knight
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it. -- Richard Dawkins
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. -- Sebastian Thrun
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? -- Hugh Mackay
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions. -- Ben Shahn
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. -- Allen West
Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step. -- Bill Gates
Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement. -- Denise Juneau
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet. -- Kesha Rogers
I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia. -- Michael Scheuer
Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation. -- Rick Perry
There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly. -- Buzz Aldrin
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. -- Alcee Hastings
Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines. -- Seymour Papert
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education. -- Gough Whitlam
Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system. -- Mark Takano
I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you. -- Julian Ovenden
I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future. -- Hillary Clinton
I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus. -- Alison Gopnik
The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus. -- Marco Rubio
Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well. -- Vicki Donlan
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. -- Dalai Lama

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