Educational Criticism Quotes

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

The biggest threat to our future isn’t climate change, China or the national debt. It is the tyrannical grip that a hopelessly corrupt higher education now has on our national life.

Today the most effective way to disabuse a student of the idea that he can know truth is to send him to an elite college.

The real problem is the built-in ideas in Muslim minds that they can always get something for nothing. They don't go to normal healthy schools where other boys and girls go for their training. They have to go to 'madrassahs' and then learn nothing. They are taught that the earth is flat; that the sun goes round the earth and Mecca is the center of gravity of the earth.

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.