Daniel Greenberg Quotes

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

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.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

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

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that's going to prepare us and give us the tools that we need in order to thrive outside of school. It's our government's responsibility to make sure that everyone is included.

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

My daughter's education is my priority.

We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

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

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

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.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

A child miseducated is a child lost.