Mitt Romney Quotes

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Keep the Federal skunk out of our schools.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

If I'm elected President, I will make sure that you won't have too much homework.

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace…. the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.

I went to college. I did that but I worked at the same time, and I trained.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.