Kenny Marchant Quotes

Great Schools. Great Texas

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

We're all in agreement that our children deserve a world-class education.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

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

I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

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.

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.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

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

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

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

I have seen no primary schools worthy to be compared, even now, with those of Holland.

We - our children need a quality public education.

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

I definitely had a top-notch education.