Lynda Resnick Quotes

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

We need to increase education budgets.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.