Margaret Spellings Quotes

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that.

Public broadcasting makes our nation smarter, stronger and, yes, safer.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

My mother taught me to read.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

As a body they are ignorant and wicked. Without schools, without teachers, without ministers—what will become of them?

What its children become, that will the community become.

The fate of our country, and hence of the world, depends on the degree to which the American people achieve liberal education. It is a process…of placing in the hands of the American people the means of continuing and revitalizing Western civilization, for the sake of the West and for the sake of all mankind.