Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.

The folks who run the poverty industry in this town are worried that kids will get a better education at schools that cost half the amount they spend on the public schools. In their shoes, I'd be worried too.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

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

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.

More than fifty cents on the dollar in our public school system in the United States is spent on Administration. If you know of a private industry that spends more than fifty cents on the dollar on administration and is still making a profit, I would like to know what it is.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

The sheltering of upper income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

… the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions…. Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

I have seen no primary schools worthy to be compared, even now, with those of Holland.

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.