Eric Schlosser Quotes

During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education. Then you go working in schools, especially in places like New York City and Chicago that I'm most familiar with, and you find these huge aspirations are beaten out of you in a very systematic way - and still people persevere.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

School is a place were you go to eat your lunch

My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.