Lucio Tan Quotes

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

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.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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

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.

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.

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.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

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

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

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.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

Education has become a condition of national survival.

The largest investment that most communities have is their school buildings.

Education will never be raised to a level adequate to the demands of the present form of civilization--it is woefully inadequate now--till international ethical action raises it.