Education Quotes

"Master Yoda will teach you."

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

"Come. I will teach you the ways of the Force."

"I have much to learn."

"Understanding comes through patience and study."

"Come with me, and I will complete your training."

"The Emperor has taught you well."

"Come, boy. Learn the power of the Force."

"Your training begins now."

"Colonial knowledge is always already contested and partial."

"Postcolonial criticism must be attuned to local specificities."

"Ambivalence is the condition of colonial knowledge production."

"Postcolonial criticism must attend to the materiality of colonial relations."

"Cultural difference is not a problem but a resource for critical thinking."

"Education is not a consumer good. It is a public good."

"Testing has become a substitute for actual teaching and learning."

"We must reclaim our schools from those who would turn them into test-preparation factories."

"The purpose of education is to create thoughtful, caring, engaged citizens."

"When we reduce education to test scores, we diminish the very thing we are trying to measure."

"The standardized testing movement has narrowed the curriculum and weakened American education."

"Democracy requires an educated citizenry. Without it, we are vulnerable to demagoguery."

"Good teachers understand that education is about more than measurable outcomes."

"We should judge the quality of a school by the character of its graduates, not their test scores."

"Educational reform without adequate funding is a contradiction in terms."

"The great teachers are those who inspire students to think for themselves."

"When we over-test our children, we steal from them the joy of learning."

"Public education has been undermined by a market-based ideology that treats children as economic units."

"The corporate takeover of education has harmed students and impoverished the teaching profession."

"We must resist the reduction of education to workforce preparation."

"The most important things we learn in school cannot be tested."