James Payn Quotes

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

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

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

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.

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.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

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

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

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'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

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.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

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.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

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

The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.