George W. Bush Quotes

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 we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

It is a privileged school with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not in ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve.

We're all in agreement that our children deserve a world-class education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

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.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

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.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

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.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

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

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.