Jim Jeffords Quotes

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

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

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

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.

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.

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

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

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 believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

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.

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

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

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.

Germany did not acquire its admirable educational system by popular demand … the crowd cannot guide itself, cannot help itself in its blind impotence.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

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

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.