#education

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#crutch #education #foolish #idiots #prove

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#few #many #most #pass #possess

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dominant #dominant force #education #everything #exclusivity

The formal education that I received made little sense to me. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#formal #formal education #i #little #made

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#education #equals #exciting #field #fighting

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#attendance #education #give #given #high

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ↗

— Mark Twain

#boards #first #god #idiots #made

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. ↗

— Scott Walker

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