Lucio Tan Quotes

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

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

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.