Samuel Johnson Quotes

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

Education in America stinks!

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

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.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

The country that out educates us today will out compete us tomorrow.