Quotes About Education

All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

You don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? How annoying would that be?

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

One Size Does Not Fit All Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn't really discover what they could do—and who they really were—until they'd left school and recovered from their education.

When children aren't given the space to struggle through things on their own, they don't learn to problem-solve very well. They don't learn to be confident in their own abilities, and it can affect their self-esteem.

a system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration—within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this.

As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.

Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that's exactly what we need.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast?food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and "deindividuation" but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort. For the future, education must be Elemental.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and empower. ENGAGE

the main role of a school's principal is not command and control, it is climate control.

the emphasis on testing comes at the expense of teaching children how to employ their natural creativity and entrepreneurial talents—the precise talents that might insulate them against the unpredictability of the future in all parts of the world.

The testing and educational support industry is booming. In 2013 it had combined revenues in the United States alone of $16.5 billion.10 To put that in context, the entire U.S. domestic cinema box office gross in 2013 was a little less than $11 billion11 and the National Football League is currently a $9 billion business.

Many of the jobs that current systems of education were designed for are fast disappearing.

Cultural identities are always evolving, but education is one of the ways in which communities try to control the rate of change. This is why there's always such heat generated around the content of education.