Maynard James Keenan Quotes

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

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

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.