Barack Obama Quotes

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

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

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

The better the teacher, the better the future of America.

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

I will comprehensively review the education system with my team to create a stable, caring, and inspiring environment for students, parents, teachers, and principals.

The big thing in Ghana is a strong sense that if you failed in your education that was it. There was no system... to give you support later on, there really wasn't much of a second chance so there was a big emphasis in... this is your life chance and you have got to take it.

I think it's a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.