Robert J. Bentley Quotes

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

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

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

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

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

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

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

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

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

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

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.

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.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

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of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

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.

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

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.

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.