Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.