Education Options Quotes

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

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Homeschooling represents another perfectly valid educational option.

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

I'm not saying everyone must go to college. What I'm saying is that every student in Texas, no matter how poor, deserves options. They must be taught to believe they can and will graduate from high school with grades good enough to succeed in trade school, in community college, or in any university in America, including Harvard, Yale, UT or A&M.

We want parents to have choices. But we never want to let the choice that one parent makes limit the choices that another parent can make.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

We should make sure that every student has at least one alternative—and preferably several—to her neighborhood school.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

A traditional college education works for many students, but for others, this path isn't the best choice.

You want to spend more of the money you earn? You want to control your own healthcare, and you want to pick where your kid goes to school? Then, welcome to the new Republican party. That's us.

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not - most parents don't have either the time, the inclination or the aptitude to sit and go through sifting what school and what is available and what the options are.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.