Quotes for Close Reading

"More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities." -Jonathan Kozol

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." –Charlotte Bronte

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." –James Baldwin

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." –Maria Montessori

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela

“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.” -Rosabeth Moss Baker

“If the rich and all the church people should send their children to public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these school until they met the highest ideals” –Susan B. Anthony

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?” Erich Fromm

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

“Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” B.B. King

“Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” –Agatha Christie

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Leonardo DaVinci

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper of self-confidence.” Robert Frost