“ I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn’t use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That’s what prisoners do on walls. They mark the days until th… Tucker Elliot
“ To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day. Max Braithwaite
“ In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think. Harry Gilbert
“ One of the most significant consequences of the proliferation of tests over the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21th has been this tendency of assessment to direct the curriculum… Gary Thomas
“ Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality. Joseph Ohler Jr.
“ If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant.… Gyan Nagpal
“ School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access… Glenn Beck
“ Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and o… Mark Twain
“ The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service. Elizabeth Goudge
“ In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why the stars are in the sky. Either you know and you’re alive or it’s… Chet Raymo
“ Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its t… Gary Thomas
“ We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. Bryant McGill
“ [America]'s higher education system is excellent, both in terms of quality and accessibility. Here anybody can go to college. Many countries simply can't accommodate many students. And by the way, mos… Mahbod Seraji
