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“Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.”

People School Young Education Generations Style Information Students Demand Steady Self Education Cafeteria

Author:Edward Hirsch

“We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.”

Men Dream Money Education Known Demand Meetings Educational American Dream Venture New Day Educational System

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.”

Ideas Education Students College Demand Suits Uneducated Proclaiming

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?”

Inspirational Giving Children Doe Motivational Education Teacher Taught Demand Software License Alphabet Fees Licensing

Author:William Gibson

“One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."”

Two Political Education Demand Economist Parrots Supply And Demand

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.”

“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”

World Giving Persons I Can Done Hands Time Education Demand Prove Laughter Intention Harm Aphorism Educator Reproach

Book:The diaries of Franz Kafka

Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

Thinking Giving Results Education Teaching Demand Pupils Teaching And Learning

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.”