Thomas Friedman Quotes

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.

Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.

The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.