Sandra Feldman Quotes

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

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

Schools should be open all day, all year.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.