Donald Trump Quotes

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

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

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?

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.

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.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

I made good grades in school.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

What began to weigh heavily upon me was that at the same time I was struggling to get my scholars and their families to believe in themselves, I was part of an educational system that despite its best intentions, only reinforced their failures.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

You've got close to educational meltdown here [in Chicago].

Schools should be held accountable for results.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of skin or where they come from. It is not who their parents are or how much money they have. It is who their teacher is.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

There is compelling evidence that shows student involvement in the arts can make a significant difference in improving educational outcomes for all kids.

We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”