Lamar Alexander Quotes

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

There will always be prayer in school as long as there are math tests.

Keep schools open from sunset to sundown.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

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.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

Children are there to go to school and I absolutely support their rights to have views about the world and I absolutely support them expressing themselves, but not during school.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

You can have the nicest academy in the world, it doesn't make any difference, it's all about the people. Our job is all about the people.

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.