Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

The problem with education is school.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

I love the classroom.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

You know there's a problem [with the education system] when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

What do they teach them at these schools?

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.