Shashi Tharoor Quotes

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

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

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

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.

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?

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

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

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

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

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

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

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.