Marc Benioff Quotes

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Our education system is not meeting the needs of today’s workforce much less tomorrow’s.

The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

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.

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

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

Education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country…

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.