Christine Leunens Quotes

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.

A memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer the to the higher.

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

The truth is that our system of public instruction, which has awakened the Hindus from the sleep of centuries and quickened their inert masses with some of the noble impulses of a nation is opposed to the tradition, unsuited to the requirements, and hateful to the religion of the Musalmans [Moslems]

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change the way a generation of young people is educated. That's how you'll shift the world.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.