Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

America needs rebooting.

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

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.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

It is not enough to reform the educational system. We have to replace the educational system.

You cannot change the psychology of a people by a coup d'etat, or by some quick process of political chemistry convert an idle nobleman into a serious worker, or a medical student into a full-blown statesman.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

No plan of popular education can be realized alone; a change both in the political and material condition of the people is also needed; and they who imagine that an educational transformation may be accomplished alone, deceive themselves.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

Inter-caste marriages in India are on the rise but still tend to be the province of the liberal few. For much of the country, with its penchant for arranged marriages and close family ties, caste is still a primary determinant in choosing a spouse. Politics is where caste has gotten a surprising new lease on life. After money and education, democracy is, of course, the third powerful force transforming Indian society. But Indians, it turns out, are passionate about the caste of their politicians. Nearly half of the voting population of even a highly educated city like Bangalore considers caste to be the No. 1 reason to vote for a candidate.

Education will never be raised to a level adequate to the demands of the present form of civilization--it is woefully inadequate now--till international ethical action raises it.

The greatest success of the Freedmen's Bureau lay in the planting of the free school among Negroes

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

We are going to change Brazil!