Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

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.

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.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Public education is an investment in our future.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

We build more prisons than we do classrooms; the quality of the prisons is better than the quality of the classrooms.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.

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

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

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

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

We need better public education and more realistic education.