… one of the most detrimental (and least discussed) effects of the crisis in science education in the world today is that we are creating a population increasingly unable to think skeptically about a wide range of issues.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Children are naturally curious and I would argue that our education system destroys this curiosity and replaces it with anxiety about performance

One of the reasons, for example, I think that our youth is so badly educated and it is inconceivably badly educated-is because education demands a certain daring, a certain independence of mind. You have to teach some people to think; and in order to teach some people to think, you have to teach them to think about everything. There mustn't be something they can not think about. If there is one thing they can not think about, very shortly they can't think about anything.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

I'm really concerned about the quality of education in the United States. I think it's going down, and I don't think we spend enough money on it. It's unhealthy for our society that we remove ourselves more and more every day from books, from reading, from writing. All areas of education need more emphasis. I think we're a bit lazy here in America. I believe in the ideal of the classic liberal education, and I also think athletics are very important to the education of young people.

There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.

... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not educated enough to question what they've been taught.
~ Author Unknown

Many say that the standard of education (in the country) has fallen but we would soon find out that has not really been so. In spite of all the challenges, it is still the educational system that produced the manpower that is driving this country.