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Educational System Quotes

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
- Joe Baca

The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I'm fourteen." Nick
"Yeah..." Acheron
"Ash, I'm fourteen." Nick
"Got it. You're fourteen. I'm so proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you're not the only one. I'm told you go a school with a whole class of get this kids who are fourteen." Acheron
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
- Kathryn Bigelow

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.
- Robert Bork

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
- Harvey Cushing

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.
- Michel Foucault

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W Gardner

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
- Al Gore

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
- Spider Robinson

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
- Sidney Hook

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
- John Hume

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
- John Hume

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
- Jim Jeffords

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
- Ed Markey

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
- Hermann Oberth

Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.
- Ambeth R Ocampo

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
- George Andrew Olah

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
- Isabel Paterson

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.
- Marilynne Robinson

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
- Marjane Satrapi

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
- Sargent Shriver

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
- Peter Thiel

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
- Malcolm Wallop

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
- Frank Zappa

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