Jeff Duncan Quotes

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.

I believe in local control of education.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.

When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.

There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

Fellow conservatives, particularly within the Republican Party, typically do a good job arguing against totalitarian, one-size-fits-all approaches to policy. What works for a family in New York City might not work in Jenison, Michigan, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.