Sivamani Quotes

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

I'm president of my children's day school and have a tremendous passion for education.

We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

I never like experimenting with children.

Our University is a state university. It belongs to the people of Wisconsin. The state was not made for the university. The university was established to serve the state.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.