Quotes About Change

If geologic time could somehow be seen in the perspective of human time, on the other hand, sea level would be rising and falling hundreds of feet, ice would come pouring over continents and as quickly go away . . . continents would crawl like amoebae, rivers would arrive and disappear like rainstreaks down an umbrella, lakes would go away like puddles after rain, and volcanoes would light the earth as if it were a garden of fireflies.

Norman Maclean called A River Runs Through It fiction, and the word "fiction" appeared in the book's front matter. A River Runs Through It was autobiographical fact in nearly all aspects but one. For private reasons, the author had shifted the site of his brother's murder and, being Norman Maclean, considered that change and others quite enough fabrication to disqualify the text as nonfiction.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.