Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 416 Education quotesEducation QuotesEducation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.~ Dr. Thomas Sowell Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.~ Thomas Sowell We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.~ Thomas Sowell Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.~ Thomas Sowell With all the pious talk about "tolerance" in the media and in academia, there is virtually none for those who challenge the dogmas of political correctness in most of our colleges and universities.~ Thomas Sowell For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life -- to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this -- a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.~ Herbert Spencer Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.~ Baruch Spinoza Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.~ Josef Stalin World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries … [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.~ Josef Stalin The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.~ Justice Joseph Story [T]he child should be taught to consider his instructor... superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.~ John Swett As a general thing the only persons who have a legal right to give orders to the teacher are his employers, namely, the committee in some States, and in others the directors or trustees. If his conduct is approved by his employers the parents have no remedy as against him or them.~ John Swett The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.~ John Swett The public expects too much from teachers because educationists have led it to believe teachers could be substitute parents, psychotherapists, cops, social workers, dieticians, nursemaids, babysitters, and nose wipers and still do a decent job teaching kids to read, write, and do math. Instead of saying no, educationists have added courses in environmental education, death education, personal hygiene, self-esteem, driver's ed, job readiness, sexual harassment, radon studies, yoga, yogurt awareness, and god-knows-what-else.~ Charlie Sykes Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. Taylor If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands.~ Dr. Augustus O. Thomas The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.~ Norman Thomas To be awake is to be alive.~ Henry David Thoreau The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.~ Alvin Toffler Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print