Education System Quotes - Page 7

• Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Block, College

  "Rubio slams Clinton, higher ed 'cartel' in policy speech" by Eli Stokols, www.politico.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Smart

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• I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

  Ryan Gosling

  Growing Up, Care, Canada

  Interview with Steve Carell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

  Glenn Beck

  Horse, Educational, Stupid

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• America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Opportunity, America, Generations

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• Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

  Bill Gates

  Development, Want, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Real, Compassion

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• There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Children, Car

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• I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Suicide, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: collider.com

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• A New York City judge struck down a proposed law to ban sodas larger than 16 ounces. I think Mayor Bloomberg should spend his time trying to improve stuff like education. New York needs a better education system if kids didn't figure out they could get around the 16-ounce soda ban by simply purchasing two 12-ounce sodas.

  Craig Ferguson

  New York, Kids, Thinking

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• Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Quality, Mexico

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  California, World, Destroying

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• 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

  Educational, Kids, America

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Broken, Choices

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

  Michelle Obama

  Education, Giving Up, Order

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• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Timothy Murphy

  Country, Doors, Drug

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• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

  Philip Pullman

  Reading, Years, Oxford

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• Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

  Adam Rickitt

  Government, Media, Play

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• I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

  Kevin Nealon

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Education, Children, Thinking

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• I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Direct Selling, Rich, Found

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• There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

  David Puttnam

  Teacher, Average, World

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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