Gary Johnson Quotes

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.