Dumbing Down Education Quotes & Sayings

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. — Robert Rauschenberg

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes. — B.W. Powe

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back. — Jhumpa Lahiri

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — Sonia Rykiel

It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress. — Peter Houston

Accepting the Cross, entering into fellowship with Christ, means entering the realm of transformation and expiation. — Pope Benedict XVI

[Charlie] Moon was trying hard to get a handle on this. Maybe he's got a PhD. What with pass-fail replacing conventional grading, Internet diploma mills, and who knows what other academic innovations that has been driving the dumbing-down in American education, you couldn't tell who might have a sheepskin tucked away in his hip pocket. — James D. Doss

I told you, said Dimitri, eyes both amused and sharp. — Richelle Mead

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"I put my wellies on because I was sure it was going to rain and now my feet are getting horribly moist," Ellie said, and it was the single worst thing she'd ever said to anyone. — Sarra Manning

It's Isabelle," George said.
Simon leaped out of bed - or, gallantly tried to, at least. He got a bit tangled in his sheets, so it was more like he tumbled-twisted-THUDDED out of bed, but eventually he made it to his feet, ready to charge into action. "What happened to Isabelle? — Cassandra Clare

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. — Robert Redford

The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon is public outrage. Outrage blocked the Yuccan Dam, ousted Nixon, and in part, terminated the monstrosities in Vietnam. But outrage is unwieldy to manufacture and handle. First, you need scrutiny; second, widespread awareness; only when this reaches a critical mass does public outrage explode into being. Any stage may be sabotaged. The world's Alberto Grimaldis can fight scrutiny by burying truth in committees, dullness, and misinformation, or by intimidating the scrutinizers. They can extinguish awareness by dumbing down education, owning TV stations, paying 'guest fees' to leader writers, or just buying the media up. The media - and not just The Washington Post - is where democracies conduct their civil wars. — David Mitchell

John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look at Home Education Magazine and its website. — Daniel H. Pink

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. — Robert Alden

War. The ultimate betrayal of tribe isn't acting competitively - that should be encouraged - but predicating your power on the excommunication of others from the group. That is exactly what politicians of both parties try to do when they spew venomous rhetoric about their rivals. That is exactly what media figures do when they go beyond criticism of their fellow citizens and openly revile them. Reviling people you share a combat outpost with is an incredibly stupid thing to do, and public figures who imagine their nation isn't, potentially, one huge combat outpost are deluding themselves. In — Sebastian Junger

On ne sait jamais!
One never knows! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity. — Jay Leno