Jose Ferreira Quotes

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

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.

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

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

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

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.

Education has become a condition of national survival.

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

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.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

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.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

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.

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

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.