American Education System Quotes

• 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

  Educational, School, America

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• The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

  Dennis Miller

  Woods, Secretary, Ifs

  "Ranting Again". Book by Dennis Miller, June 1998.

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• 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

  Home, Views, People

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.88, Vintage

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• 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

  Class, Creative, Connections

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• 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

  America, Cards, Communist

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• 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

  Intellectual, Today, Common

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Australia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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