Jerry Falwell Jr. Quotes

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

To innovate is not to reform.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

The French higher education system has not adapted to this revolutionary period. [It] rewards people for their capacity to follow the path that is open to them. It does not encourage people to rebel or to develop their character.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

We do not need more status quo.

A traditional college education works for many students, but for others, this path isn't the best choice.