Fred Fisk Quotes

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? … Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

If we could create higher education from scratch, would we have organizations that divide people by race, class and gender at institutions that are supposed to be encouraging diversity? No!

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.