Charles Babbage Quotes

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

The U. S. is suffering greatly by the defects of the educational system .... we are producing an underclass.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

… science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

The teachers are being screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system and the government doesn’t seem to care.