Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

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.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

Common Core is a big win for education.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

We have to fix the education system.

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

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

Teachers know how to improve education.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.