Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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

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

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

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

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

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.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

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.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

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

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

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

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

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

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.