Rick Perry Quotes

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails.

It is time to end social promotion in America’ s schools.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to compete both nationally and globally and help drive economic growth.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.

I ain't graduate high school.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.

I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.

I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.