Shiv Nadar Quotes

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

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

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

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.

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

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.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

The largest investment that most communities have is their school buildings.

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.