Matt Bevin Quotes

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

Investing in children's education is vital.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

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.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

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.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents - or to let them down.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

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

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.