"What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job applicati..."
- Chris Colfer
"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."
- Flannery O'Connor
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"
- Alexandre Dumas
"I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time."
- Mary Ann Shaffer
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"
- Richard Feynman
"College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?"
- David Wood
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
- Plato
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
- Baruch Spinoza
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve indust..."
- Wendell Berry