Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Murray Rothbard

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

Moliere

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Moliere

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Milton Berle

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

Milton Berle

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

Milton Berle

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

Milton Berle

One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

Milton Berle

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Milton Berle

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

Milton Berle

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Milton Friedman

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.

Natalia Ginzburg

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

Munshi Premchand

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Julia Ward Howe

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Julia Ward Howe

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Ice T

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Peter Falk

For some reason, his pool-hall education gets far more ink than his master's degree. And most important, he's part of a hardworking showbiz tradition that doesn't make films, it makes ''pictures.

Ivan Illich

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Ivan Illich

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ishmael Reed

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

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

Ishmael Reed

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Ishmael Reed

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

Idries Shah

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

Hyman Rickover

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Gloria Steinem

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Harry S Truman

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

J. P. Morgan

You can't unscramble eggs.

J. K. Rowling

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. L. Mencken

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.