Zephyr Teachout Quotes

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

As we embark on something as ambitious as the Common Core, educators must be able to teach to the standards with the necessary support and collaboration and without the sense that there will be dire consequences if students, schools and their tests don't make the grade.

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

They [educators] don't want to hear my views on education. They just want the [federal] money.

Every time something has gone wrong with foreign policy, it’s been because the American people have not been involved in the process.

In raising the educational level of the country, the role of the Federal Government is extremely limited.