Gertrude Stein Quotes

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

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

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

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

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

Next to my family, it seems clear to me that the educational institutions and the teachers from whom I had the privilege of learning were especially important.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education - education that remains elusive for too many Americans.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.