American Education Quotes

• By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, School, Average

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Learning, Community

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

  Walter E. Williams

  Faithful, Ignorant, Liberty

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

  James Truslow Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  James Truslow Adams (1930). “A Searchlight on America”, London : Routledge

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• American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Doors, World, Wonder

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Mean, Exercise

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, School, People

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

  Paul Lutus

  Failure, Political, Opinion

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• As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

  Walter E. Williams

  Tree, Feelings, Forests

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

  Mark Shields

  School, Quality, Determined

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

  Jedediah Bila

  People, Enough

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

  Paul Erdos

  Eyebrows, Television

  "Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

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