John Warner Quotes

The outstanding factor in their program is the use of the schools. Instead of closing them at four o'clock, they remain open and become community centers. Classes of every description go on just as they do all day, and recreational programs are carried out.

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

I want to see more sports in schools.

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community - and a culture.

In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.

If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.

I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

I had good time in high school, but I don't think I learned a lot.

You see it from my area, from any area, really, so many who want to be great and have the drive, but don't have the resources. I'm very blessed that I have a family that was financially stable enough to get me to tournaments and camps and to practices so I could wrestle year-round.

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

I am so honored to be working with A Place Called Home as their ambassador to bring awareness to the incredible services and programs which benefits kids in the Los Angeles community.

I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.