William Bennett Quotes

We are in the middle of an education recession.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

What began to weigh heavily upon me was that at the same time I was struggling to get my scholars and their families to believe in themselves, I was part of an educational system that despite its best intentions, only reinforced their failures.

The U. S. is suffering greatly by the defects of the educational system .... we are producing an underclass.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.

So completely had learning decayed in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could apprehend their services in English or even translate a letter from Latin to English... There were so few of them that I cannot recollect a single one South of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.

In Latin America, no country is prouder of its legally obligatory admission-free school system than Argentina. Yet only one Argentinian of five thousand born into the lower half of the population gets as far as the university.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

... a threat to American education .... [Colleges would become] educational hobo jungles.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

Evils of the gravest kind are likely to result from the so-called public schools.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

… 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.

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/

Federal and State mandates don’t do anything for local schools other than to protect failure.

We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”

Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.