Famous Quotes

"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."

James S. Coleman on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by James S. Coleman

• "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."

• "As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."

• "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."

• "Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."