Quotes About Education Reform

#1. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

John T. Walton

#2. I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner

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

Enrique Pena Nieto

#4. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Wendy Kopp

#5. At Newsweek, I get paid to meet amazing people and write about subjects that fascinate me: fusion energy, education reform, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, robotics, the rising competitiveness of China, the global threat of state-sponsored hacking.

Dan Lyons

#6. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

Rick Perry

#7. Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

George W. Bush

#8. I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

Paul Sadler

#9. Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Chris Gabrieli

#10. President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

Juan Williams

#11. The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices and real opportunities in the hands of families who desperately need them.

Clint Bolick

#12. There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

Rob McKenna

#13. The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

David Cameron

#14. Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

Jenny McCarthy

#15. Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Rania Al-Abdullah

#16. The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Joe Lieberman

#17. It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Andy Hargreaves

#18. Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence W. Reed

#19. I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

Michele Bachmann

#20. America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

Kevin McCarthy

#21. Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

Douglass B. Reeves

#22. The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Diane Ravitch

#23. When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

Philip Hammond

#24. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

Umberto Eco

#25. Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Susan Eaton

#26. We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

Iveta Radicova

#27. Mao relied on propaganda and education - "Thought Reform," as he called it, which became known colloquially as xinao, or "mind-cleansing." (In 1950, a CIA officer who learned of it coined the term brainwashing.)

Evan Osnos

#28. Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#29. When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

Gail Collins

#31. From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.

Saul David

#32. Change flows organically from the students themselves.

David Edward Goldberg

#33. There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Ezra Cornell

#34. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Rebecca Goldstein

#35. Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

John Cage

#36. A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Aubrey Priest

#37. By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

Auliq Ice

#38. Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Susana Martinez

#39. The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Donalyn Miller

#40. I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

John Rowland

#41. In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There's clearly something wrong with this picture.

Zander Sherman

#42. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

#43. I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

J.R. Rim

#44. I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

Daniel Barenboim

#45. Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Diane Ravitch

#46. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.

Hughes Oliphant Old

#47. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Amit Ray

#48. Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

Henry Handel Richardson

#49. I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey

#50. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

Abhijit Naskar

#51. education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#52. Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

Zander Sherman

#53. Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

Mark Takano

#54. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Anthony M. Esolen

#55. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#56. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

David Malpass

#57. Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Ahmed Zewail

#58. Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Juneau

#59. About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

Reed Hastings

#60. You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

Rob McKenna

#61. An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

Jill Telford

#62. Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Michael S. Roth

#63. I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

Two Chainz

#64. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism

Tony Blair

#65. Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Derrick A. Bell

#66. Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Diane Ravitch