Quotes About Education

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

Since we don't know with any certainty what specific aptitudes today's students will need tomorrow, we need to ensure they have the critical thinking and problem-solving abilities that extend beyond any one technology or program.

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.