Bill Ayers Quotes

The 21st century workforce should not have to accept 20th century educational methods.

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

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.

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

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.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.

My wife and I believe that there's nothing we do together as a community that's more important than education.

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

The problem with education is school.

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how you put people in possession of their heritage. To do that you have to talk about how they're being taught, and the imagination of community the people who are running our government have.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

We teach what we need to learn.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

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

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.