Gary Becker Quotes

Every time we have made an investment in education, it has paid off.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

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.

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

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.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

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.

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

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.

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.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

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

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

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

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

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

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.