Arthur Capper Quotes

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of 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.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

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

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

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

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.

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.

They [educators] don't want to hear my views on education. They just want the [federal] money.