I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
- Jack Canfield

Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.
- Claus Moser

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
- William Glasser

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.
- Eli Broad

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
- Martin H. Fischer

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
- Sophia Loren

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
- Melinda Gates

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
- wolfdyke Louis L'Amour

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