Kevin Kline Quotes

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

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

I've never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn't measure anything meaningful - usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I'd just as quickly forget.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

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

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

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.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

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.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

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.

In the drive to improve reading and mathematics, the schools have not just put history on the back burner. They have taken it off the stove.

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.