top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Standard
Customized
More
"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory."
Victory
"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
People
"But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."
Time
"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
Reading
"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."
People
"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."
People
"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
Behavior
"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
Poor
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
Society
bottom of page