Petrus Paulus Vergerius Quotes

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.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

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

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery..

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

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

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.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand 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.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Education in France is used to inculcate the values of the state.

the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

In raising the educational level of the country, the role of the Federal Government is extremely limited.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands