Rob McKenna Quotes

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

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

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

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

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

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.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

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.

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.

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.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

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

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

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.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

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

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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.

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.