Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

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

Schools should be held accountable for results.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

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

To help the parents make the choice of which school to send their child to, I would insist that schools are graded on a simple basis that parents can understand, A through F. The way Florida is done.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

I feel like Texas high schools, when you consider the melting pot that exists in Texas, do a fairly impressive job. No education process is perfect, but I think that, with plenty of room to improve, they do an admirable job when you compare them to the rest of the field.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

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.

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

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

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

I made good grades in school.

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.