Educational System Quotes - Page 5

• I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

  Kevin Kline

  Educational, Class, Indictment

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• 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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• The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

  Joe Baca

  Children, Educational, Giving

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• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Educational, Choices

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Socialist Economy, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Weed, Educational, Marijuana

  Lester Grinspoon (1971). “Marihuana reconsidered”

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• People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Writing, Technology

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Educational

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

  Al Gore

  Country, Educational, Moving

  "Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'". www.cnn.com. March 9, 1999.

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• It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Educational, Believe, Book

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

  Matt Taibbi

  Art, Educational, East

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". May 21, 2009.

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• The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Tests, Next

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

  Plato

  Military, War, Educational

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• I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Educational, Believe, Years

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• Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

  Eric Ries

  Educational, Hard Work, People

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.

  Richard Farson

  Educational, School, Play

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• I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

  George Andrew Olah

  Country, Children, War

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• Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

  Harvey Cushing

  Educational, Individualism, Defeat

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• The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.

  Paul Popenoe

  Education, Country, Children

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• Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Educational, Thinking

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• The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything.

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Educational, Expression, Impossible

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