Geoffrey Canada Quotes

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

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.

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.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

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

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

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.

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

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.

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 look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.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.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

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’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

In the drive to improve reading and mathematics, the schools have not just put history on the back burner. They have taken it off the stove.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/