Pat Robertson Quotes

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

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

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.