Quotes for All
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life – and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and … Read more
I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, ‘Why doesn’t everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn’t grow up with the same privileges I had? Erin Gruwell
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
We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth. Enrique Pena Nieto
Our nation’s security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system. Ed Markey
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
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity. Douglas B. Reeves
I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn’t enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system. Dean Koontz
It may sound strange, but when you’re a kid and you’re in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it’s like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn’t true, and books were really the educational … Read more
The left’s inability to understand the most basic economic fact – that people need an incentive to produce – has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people – mostly poor – in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies … Read more