Education in the United States Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Education in the United States.
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“Achievement gaps in the United States”
“Wikipedia: Education in the United States”
“Brown University Library Education, work: Research Guides, place: Rhode Island”
“University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Education, work: Research Guides”
“Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education.”
“Fordham University Libraries Education, work: Research Guides, place: New York”
“Wikicommons: Education in the United States”
“Harvard Graduate School of Education – Gutman Library Research Guides, place: Massachusetts”
“But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.”
“You see all these white heroes, everybody is white, all the literature classes—your Shakespeare, your poetry — everybody’s white, and you start to feel less than.”
“I started to think why people feel comfortable disrespecting us in a way that’s just not normal or natural. And I started to think that it's because our contributions aren't in history textbooks.”
“Wikisource: The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Education in the United States”
“High School Grade Point Average Calculator – Standard grade point average calculator for US High Schools.”
“Diagram of American education system, OECD – Using 1997 ISCED classification of programmes and typical ages.”
“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!”
“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
“Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?”
“Information on education in United States, OECD – Contains indicators and information about United States and how it compares to other OECD and non-OECD countries”