Carly Fiorina Quotes

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

We're all in agreement that our children deserve a world-class education.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.