Rahm Emanuel Quotes

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.

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

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

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

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

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

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

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.

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

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

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

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

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.