Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”

There isn't a single developed country which does not have its citizens well educated.

I think it's fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.