Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.
— Marshall Fritz
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
— Sir Walter Scott
The philosophy in the classroom of this generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.
— William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
— Horace Mann, first secretary of education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[The role of the schoolmaster is to] collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
— Edward Ross, Professor of Economics, Stanford University, 1900
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
— Karl Marx
The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.
— John Dewey, American educator Read more...
There’s nothing like a nice cup of coffee and a slice of warm coffee cake. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it. This recipe for Streusal Coffee cake is super easy.
