Educational System Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

  John Hume

  Educational, Opinion, Week

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

  John Hume

  Educational, School, Independent

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Educational, Keys

  "Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53".

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• Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

  Ken Robinson

  Educational, Effectiveness, Essentials

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• A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

  John Fowles

  Educational, Successful, Soldier

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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