Educational System Quotes - Page 4

• We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Educational, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

  Rinus Michels

  Soccer, Educational, Natural

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• Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

  Melanie Fiona

  Growing Up, Educational, Care

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• 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

  Educational, Financial Education, United States

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• Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

  Neil Young

  Education, Learning, Abnormal

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• 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

  Education, Country, Children

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• The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Educational, Effectiveness, Challenges

  Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.2, ASCD

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• 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

  Educational, Creativity, America

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• Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

  Marc Prensky

  Educational, People, Today

  Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.68, Corwin Press

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• Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

  Barbara Johnson

  Educational, Teaching, Agreement

  Barbara Johnson (1988). “A World of Difference”, p.76, JHU Press

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• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Skills

  "Cheap-Shot Journalism" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 14, 2006.

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• Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Educational, Integrity, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 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

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

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• Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

  Michel Foucault

  Educational, Mean, Political

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Archaeology of Knowledge”, p.373, Vintage

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• The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

  Napoleon Hill

  Educational, Decision, Weakness

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.110, Penguin

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• 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

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Educational, Successful

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• 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

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• 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

  Educational, Media, Average

  "Gore Vidal's America: Gore Vidal on liberty". The Real News Interview, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

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• 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

  Educational, School, Parent

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• 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

  Powerful, Educational, Opportunity

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Education, Children, Creativity

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• You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Educational, Kids, Succeed

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• If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Educational, Lying, Thinking

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• Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Educational, Ambition, Mean

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