Education Quotes
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
-- Alvin Toffler
“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.”
-- Philip Pullman
“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.”
-- Jonathan Sacks
“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”
-- William Glasser
“When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.”
-- Richard Dreyfuss