“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”– James Dyson Related Quotes “To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”– Thomas Jefferson “I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.”– Philip Pullman “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.”– Muriel Spark