Rod Paige Quotes

#1. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Walter Isaacson

#2. We are in the middle of an education recession.

Rod Paige

#3. There is no assurance that people are willing to surrender their impressions even if you have presented them a moving case.

Gutierrez Mangansakan II

#4. There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

Rod Paige

#5. Every child can learn, and we mean it ... excuses are not good enough, we need results.

Rod Paige

#6. The NEA is a terrorist organization.

Rod Paige

#7. Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

Rod Paige

#8. Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Rod Paige

#9. It's a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

Mitch Michaelson

#10. If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it

Clive Barker

#11. I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

Rod Paige

#12. All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.

Vanilla Ice

#13. It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

Rod Paige

#14. The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.

Rod Paige