6 Fran Lebowitz Quotes on Education

Fran Lebowitz quotes on education

1. I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

7. The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

10. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

20. Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

23. Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.

26. Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.