Peter Hitchens Quotes

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

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

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.

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

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

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

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.

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

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

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

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

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.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

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

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.