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  • A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. -- Isabel Paterson
  • The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system. -- Ed Markey
  • I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system. -- Sargent Shriver
  • Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. -- Sidney Hook
  • Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. -- Hermann Oberth
  • I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. -- Matt Taibbi
  • As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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  • I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life. -- Mark Bradford
  • Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there. -- Melanie Fiona
  • I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system. -- Kevin Kline
  • The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. -- John W. Gardner
  • I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. -- Chuck Close
  • What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. -- Harry S. Truman
  • It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. -- Sugata Mitra
  • The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. -- Joe Baca
  • The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. -- Che Guevara
  • The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection. -- Paul Popenoe
  • Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. -- Harvey Cushing
  • An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. -- Robert Bork
  • We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought. -- Richard Mitchell
  • Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. -- Richard Mitchell
  • It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future. -- Albert Einstein
  • During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -- Al Gore
  • The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. -- John W. Gardner
  • Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. -- Frank Zappa
  • We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system. -- Gore Vidal
  • So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you. -- Brian Eno
  • You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system. -- Arlo Guthrie
  • Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. -- Marc Prensky
  • Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping! -- Nick Nolte
  • I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system. -- Dean Koontz
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  • People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood) -- Tucker Max
  • Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime. -- Jay Michaelson
  • Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. -- Neil Young
  • Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else. -- Barack Obama
  • The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. -- Anthony M. Platt
  • If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced -- Henry A. Giroux
  • One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback. -- Randy Pausch
  • Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills. -- Seymour Papert
  • One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere. -- Ray Anderson
  • We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. -- Keke Palmer
  • We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free. -- Alan Keyes
  • The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything. -- Samuel Blumenfeld
  • The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning. -- James Hillman
  • Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. -- Harvey Cushing
  • [Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces. -- Peter Breggin
  • Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
  • I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system. -- Carter G. Woodson
  • I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  • I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -- Al Gore
  • Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  • The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system. -- Milton Friedman
  • In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system's failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil. -- Dagobert D. Runes
  • There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. -- Jim Jeffords
  • Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. -- Richard Mitchell
  • I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. -- Albert Einstein
  • Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects. -- William Glasser
  • Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here. -- Malcolm Wallop
  • I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. -- George Andrew Olah
  • You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque. -- Gore Vidal
  • I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. -- John Hume
  • It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations. -- Bernie Sanders
  • There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity. -- Henry Ford
  • The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere. -- Noam Chomsky
  • In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system. -- John Hume
  • Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works. -- Eric Ries
  • I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs. -- Lester Grinspoon
  • Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing. -- Jim Brown
  • Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing. -- Lawrence S. Kubie
  • The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience. -- Marita Golden
  • There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views. -- J. Paul Getty
  • I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. -- Peter Thiel
  • Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point? -- Mary Sage Nguyen
  • 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
  • We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard. -- Gerald Chertavian
  • The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago. -- Milton Friedman
  • It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had? -- Erin Gruwell
  • I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?' -- Erin Gruwell
  • Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there. -- Wilbert Rideau
  • In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value. -- Larry R. Thompson
  • Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. -- Alan Watts
  • It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals. -- Alvin Toffler
  • If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business. -- Michael Ellsberg
  • In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child. -- Rajneesh
  • Our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats." -- Charles Bukowski
  • We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. -- Brian Eno
  • A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority. -- Victoria Woodhull
  • In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system! -- Spider Robinson
  • The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.... -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States. -- Ishmael Reed
  • If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem. -- Jorge Bucay
  • After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults. -- Ruben Hinojosa
  • The whole educational and professional training system... -- Noam Chomsky
  • The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you. -- Dave Barry
  • Educational system in America is not as good as in China. You may be an idiot. It is hard to tell with you white people. -- Kate Danley
  • Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator. -- Noam Chomsky
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