“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.” IfsKindSaidImportantSelfSchoolEducationOpinionMillionsSelf EsteemStudentsIgnoranceIgnorantEsteemPromotingDepriving Author:Thomas Sowell
“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.” IfsYearsTodaySchoolAbilityMoneyEducationMillionsGreaterYouthCollegeHigh SchoolIncreaseEducateGraduates1960sGraduating High SchoolEnrollmentToday's Youth Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.” YearsTodaySchoolAmericaEducationMillionsHigh SchoolAdultsPopulationFinishedQuartersMichigan Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.” YearsFirstsSchoolEducationMillionsStudentsProgram 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
“We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.” KnowsChildrenHelpingTodayOpportunityPayEducationMillionsShareLandBearsTaxesPrioritiesCyclesViciousTaxpayersUnemployedGood EducationTop PrioritiesDelinquentsDropoutsLand Of OpportunityVicious Cycles Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.” IfsNeedsFirstsChildrenTodaySexEducationMillionsIgnoranceRacismConsumersFakeRemedyLiteracyAnti RacismSex EducationThoughtlessness Author:Richard Mitchell
“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?” StatesReligionCausesReligiousUnitedEducationMillionsUnited StatesWiseTeachingTwentiesDollarsFoolishExpensesFoolishnessUnseenAlas Author:Frances Wright
“The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.” HumansChildrenProblemBigsSchoolNationsSocialBornWealthEducationPovertyMillionsCollegePercentHigh SchoolBottomFabricStagnantMobilityWedlockDisorganizedSocial Mobility Author:David Brooks
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.” OpportunityProcessEnjoyEducationKnowledgeMillionsInformationBuildingIncreaseEducationalAccessAlternativesEmpoweringHorizonLiteracyBetter LifeEnablingEducation And LiteracyKnowledge And Information Author:Kofi Annan
“I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.” ChildrenLostEducationMillionsDignityObviousWork OutEducationalRidiculousDeniedLiteracyTranslationsStatisticianLost In Translation Author:Scarlett Johansson
“It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.” WorldMayChildrenGovernmentSchoolGirlThreeNextReligiousChanceEducationVisionPovertyMillionsAchieveDeserveUniversalSlaveryEducationalGenderDuesDecadesDiscriminationCupsTeaExploitationLiteracyDeprivedExtremismCatalystReligious ExtremismCups Of TeaEducation For AllCorrupt GovernmentGender DiscriminationThree Cups Of Tea Author:Greg Mortenson