“Judge Julius Hoffman: What were you doing until 1960? Abbie: Nothing. I believe it's called an American education.”— Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, imdb.com
“Watch 13th. Better yet, get a group of friends together and watch 13th.”— Corinne Shutack, F Jones, theoklahomaeagle.net
“Look, there are so many terribly important issues that this country faces, whether it’s healthcare, education, criminal justice, immigration, whatever it may be, but I don’t know how you not talk about whether or not the planet we’re leaving to our kids and our grandchildren will be a healthy and ha…”— Bernie Sanders, theintercept.com
“Unfortunately, in traditional education, students are basically taught to shut up and listen. Really, we should do the opposite—we should make them feel that they can influence their own destiny.”— Bernhard Gademann, airmail.news
“I was getting two educations: One from the street and one from school. That way I'd be twice as smart as everybody.”— Chazz Palminteri, Calogero "C" Anello (Age 17), Lillo Brancato, imdb.com
“On Sesame Street, Elmo has a new friend: Karli, an adorably furry, bright green Muppet whose mother is battling addiction.”— MELISSA LOCKER, time.com
“What are you looking at? You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education.”— Neal Israel, Peter Torokvei, Pat Proft, Prof. Jerry Hathaway, William Atherton, imdb.com
“Well, there you have it, from Mark Whitacre, Ph.D. You know what the Ph.D. stands for, don't you? Piled higher and deeper.”— Scott Z. Burns, Terry Wilson, Rick Overton, imdb.com
“She has a PhD, which I'm pretty sure stands for 'pretty hard diploma.'”— Alexander Rosenberg, imdb.com
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“On a clear day, looking out at the towers along the East River, you could practically see their tiny handprints smeared on the glass: the competition.”— Jessica Pressler, thecut.com
“We learn better in a free spirit of curiosity than under fear and compulsion.”— Augustine of Hippo, amazon.com
“Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills.”— Andrew Yang, amazon.com
“There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals — economic prosperity, better healthcare and education, etc. — are the same. We just don’t share the same vision o…”— Dan Crenshaw, huffingtonpost.com
“As a child growing up in poverty, I witnessed how my community consistently prioritize boys over girls in education because they felt boys had more chances to get job opportunities. These experiences made me want to write a story that decisively validates the value of giving educational opportunitie…”— Tererai Trent, tereraitrent.org
“I have legislative policies that I'm interested in—equal pay for equal work, child care, paid leave, college affordability, education, agriculture. But outside of that, I feel it's critical that people be passionate and feel invested in politics. I want to see women run for office at all levels. And…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.org
“First, as a dad of two little girls. I serve in the Legislature because I want to ensure that my kids–and everyone in my state–can get a good education and can get a good job. That’s what motivates me to serve. And that’s part of the reason I care so much about the success of our students.”— Derek Kilmer, ncsl.org