“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.” StatesProblemSchoolPoliticsWishAttentionHigh SchoolPaidCommunicateLatinNo ProblemLatin AmericaHead Of StateLatin American Author:Dan Quayle
“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.” IfsChildrenHelpingHomeSchoolPoliticsWonderBreakProgramTraditionChainsBrownBagsLinksLunchContinuingExpandingDemiseAmerican TraditionSchool Lunch Author:Charles Mathias
“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.” PeopleYearsMeanPersonsSchoolPoliticalPoliticsIndividualSimpleNumbersEducationCasesArmsBearsGunOppositesCreditSentencesDrivenAgendasAmendmentsElegantInabilitySecond AmendmentCorrelationDeteriorationPolitical AgendasAmerican Education Author:Sheldon Richman
“Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.” HumansWellsHas BeensStatesReasonPhilosophySchoolLyingOrderTurnsEvilPoliticsCausesCommonAttentionEconomyTroubleDivineMassAcceptedConclusionBitterThese DaysLiberalismConsentPrivate LifeVex Author:Pope Leo XIII
“The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.” ThinkingWisdomSchoolPoliticsAbilityResultsEconomyGenerationsWesternLiberalismComing Out Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.” IfsMenWantCountryEnoughSchoolPoliticsCommunityJusticePrayerWalksViolenceStreetsPolicyTearsHonorGunMen And WomenHuman RightsIdeologyTwelveBulletsStolenOur PrayersCivilityOur WordsSenseless Violence Author:Barack Obama
“I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.” ThinkingWantShouldGovernmentKidsSchoolScienceReligionPoliticsChurchDecisionEducationFamilyTeachPolicyTaughtTheoryEvolutionEconomicsConstitutionSeparationLocalsIdeologyBiologyFederal GovernmentChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSchool Districts Author:Bobby Jindal
“Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.” DoeRealHomeSchoolReligionGamesPoliticsGoalPrayerAudienceTelevisionFootballPrayingCreaturesUrgesAssemblyRatingAll AloneFootball Game Author:Garry Wills
“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.” KnowsKindStatesFactsRealitySchoolJobsAsksPoliticsLeadershipWorkJusticeUnitedMoneyEducationUnited StatesPolicyTaxesTestsStrategyBillionsIdeologyReceivingTaxpayersIrresponsibleEducatorUnreasonablePublic EducationIndicators Author:Michelle Rhee
“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.” WritingDoeArtRealAbleSchoolPoliticsSidesPoorPartyCrimePolicyPropertySlavePopulationConservativeBrandsIndianGenerousImmigrantsCherishAspireModeratesProposeConservative Party Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.” SchoolFormPoliticalPoliticsDoctrineSymbolsAbstractVisibleVulgarFablesSectsImposingEsoteric Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.” CountryGovernmentWould BeSchoolPoliticsAbsurdRestraintAbolishMadhouses Author:Thomas B. Macaulay