Betsy DeVos Quotes

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

It will not do to say we are too poor to educate the people--we are too poor not to educate them

The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).