US Education Quotes

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for much of his adult life.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

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.

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.

I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

The United States Office of Education has likewise been guilty of spreading racial equality propaganda. In a report to the press, Dr. John W. Studebaker, head of the Office of Education, and his Negro assistant, Dr. Ambrose Caliver, who is racial adviser in the office of Education, called upon the colleges and universities of the South to open their doors to Negro students

I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.

If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.