Margaret Spellings Quotes

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

The country that out educates us today will out compete us tomorrow.

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.

Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

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

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

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

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

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.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

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.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

I think parents want their kids to have a strong, competitive education. The message [of my victory] was that includes a full set of science standards and that includes evolution.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

I think that there should be national standards in reading and math and maybe history and civics….We have a culture of non-compliance with Federal requirements in education.