Quality Instruction Quotes

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

You can have the nicest academy in the world, it doesn't make any difference, it's all about the people. Our job is all about the people.

I'm a little bit tired of people getting credit for improving education by doing the cheapest thing they can do, which is to call for the manipulation of test scores or to create new standards.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

The reasons that parochial schools are generally better than the public schools is that the parochial schools have two things that the public schools do not have: Discipline and Standards.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

The better the teacher, the better the future of America.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Great teachers should be rewarded.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.

If you want to reform schools, don't do it with testing. We used to say, "If you want elephants to grow, you don't weigh the elephants. You feed the elephants." Children will not grow unless they get quality instruction.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.

If you look at the best schools that gets the best results, they teach a broad curriculum but they are also rigorous.