John Kricfalusi Quotes

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

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

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.