Education Quotes

"I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that."

- Ashley Rickards

"The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores."

- Angela Duckworth

"Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it."

- Mike Gallagher

"The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills."

- Virginia Postrel

"Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not."

- Ken Robinson

"Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country."

- Randi Weingarten

"I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT."

- Andrew Yang

"I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child."

- Channing Tatum

"It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

"The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not following directions."

- Alfie Kohn

"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 a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

"Teaching is the essential profession, the one that makes all professions possible."

- David Haselkorn

"The work of a teacher -- exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same -- is at its heart an ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations."

- William Ayres

"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems -- the answer for all the problems of the world -- comes to a single word. That word is education."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible."

- Barack Obama

"Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."

- Tomie dePaola

""Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.""

- Robert M. Hutchins

""The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.""

- Mark Twain

""Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.""

- Malcolm X

""When the student is ready, the master appears.""

- Buddhist Proverb

""Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.""

- Chinese Proverb

""The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.""

- BB King

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

- John F. Kennedy

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

- John F. Kennedy

"With ignorance comes fear, from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance."

- Kathleen Patel

"If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love."

- Steve Irwin

"“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”"

- Nelson Mandela

"[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor."

- John F. Kennedy

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

- John F. Kennedy

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

- H.G. Wells