Educational System Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Educational, Writing, Broken

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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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• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

  Frank Zappa

  Motivational, Senior, Educational

  "Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" ("Freak Out!")". June 27, 1966.

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• The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

  Che Guevara

  Children, Wall, Educational

  "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.

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• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

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• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  Brian Eno

  Educational, Believe, Character

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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