Quotes About K 12

#1. Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#2. In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

John Maeda

#3. I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Eli Broad

#4. Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#5. Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Tom Barrett

#6. You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

Gerald Chertavian

#7. Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Wendy Kopp

#8. The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Peter Brimelow

#9. In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Bill Gates

#10. We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

John Kline

#11. I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

January Jones

#12. 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.

Gary Johnson

#13. I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and engineers.

Anonymous

#14. Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

David Harsanyi

#15. 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.

Eli Broad

#16. I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Eli Broad

#17. I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Peter Brimelow

#18. Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Corin Tucker

#19. I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

Geddy Lee

#20. One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Agatha Christie

#21. I don't know why; when I look at you, I see myself

Rumi

#22. Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

Jonny Greenwood

#23. That's No Ordinary Girl

B.J. Neblett

#24. Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Ernest Bramah

#25. In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.

Kresley Cole

#27. Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you.

~Shade

Larissa Ione