“In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.” WayEndsSchoolValuesWealthEconomyFansBiggerAddEfficientZuckerbergSnobby Author:Amity Shlaes
“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.” YearsWellsMayWholeSchoolValuesWeekSummerConvictionOrganizedCampsFormalSummer CampWhole YearSchool Work Author:Charles William Eliot
“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.” ThinkingWayMindPersonsArtBookSchoolValuesReadingBrainStudentsTypeNeededSittingConnectionsHeightReachingClassroomFull PotentialGood Students Author:Misty Copeland
“The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.” NeedsYearsHas BeensSchoolValuesProcessStudentsOffersYears AgoNutritionCommitteesExtensionsCurvesCoventry Author:Michael Reeves
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.” KnowsMenWorldSelfCharacterSeemsGovernmentSchoolSpiritValuesHateMy OwnViewsDealsBoysPracticeOne ThingSecurityIdealsI HateIndependentKillingLeavingPoint Of ViewPracticalsInsaneCourageousNew WorldDependenceConfrontingNew DealPioneeringSelf ReliantThings I HateCourageous ManLeaving SchoolPioneering Spirit Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.” WayBigsMightSchoolValuesHateClassTeachExampleFinancialDebtHandleGrandmotherLiteracyMy GrandmotherMamaFinancial LiteracyBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.” ThinkingNeedsIdeasSchoolCertainValuesOpportunitySocialGrowingCompetitionDetermineCriticalIncomeWelcomeIdeologyPortionsPercentagesCritical ThinkingCurriculumPublic EducationPrivatizationSocial Values Author:David A. Strauss
“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.” RealSchoolValuesClassIssuesMiddleFameUnderstoodMiddle ClassLots Of MoneyReal ValueMiddle Class Family Author:Suresh Raina
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.” KnowsNeedsUseProblemSchoolFacesValuesGirlForceConsciousnessBoysKnow HowHigh SchoolStonesValuableSolveCommodityEquations Author:Ravi Gomatam
“Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.” NeedsDoeCountryStatesDonePlaySchoolValuesUnitedRolesUnited StatesPolicyActiveEducateElitesForeign PolicyElementary SchoolAmerican ValuesRealpolitik Author:Mohsin Hamid
“The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.” ChildrenSchoolChristianValuesStrongCommunityReligiousTaughtEqualAll ThingsAppreciationScaryPublic EducationChristian CommunityReligious EducationStrong Faith Author:Rod Paige
“Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.” NeedsMadeKidsSchoolValuesParentColdConnectionsShelterConsumerismHomelessEnd TimesEldersSpend TimeMeanness Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.” SchoolChristianValuesJesusChristReligiousPrayerInterestingMoralLordWeekMoralityJesus ChristAtheistControlledOffendedPraying To GodBlasphemyLord Jesus ChristMoral ValuesBroadcastingGod PrayerDays Of The Week Book:A Nation Without a Conscience Source: A Nation Without a Conscience
“God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.” PeopleMindMadeStatesSchoolChristianValuesReligiousSubjectsInstitutionsIllegalDevotedPublic School Author:Pat Swindall
“Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.” ChildrenHas BeensSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesReligiousAnswersClearEconomicPositionConservativeTraditionalBiasPublic SchoolTextbooksExcludedBiasedFamily ValuesCensoredTraditional FamilyConservative Political Author:Paul Vitz
“And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.” WayWantGivingChildrenImportantSelfHomeSchoolValuesParentAcceptableHandmade Author:Fred Rogers