Quotes About Reform

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more—which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.

Every moment—every blink—is composed of a series of discrete moving parts, and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

Some people believe that North Korean decision makers can be lured or blackmailed into starting reforms, while others hope that they will finally come to their senses and do the right thing for their people as long as the outside world stops meddling in their affairs.

At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals.

Spiritualism provided an important audience for radical reform and a source of affirmation for embattled radical leaders. In their zeal for "self-ownership," Spiritualists advocated a broad woman's rights program, combating every disability imposed by church, state, or social convention.

Proposing an immigration policy that serves America's interests should not require an apology.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to get business lobbyists in a car and drive them around with a gun to their heads for an hour, explaining: We can give you regulatory reform, OSHA reform, tax relief, tort reform. But if we give you immigration, we won't be in a position to give you anything else, ever again, and you'll have to take your chances with Nancy Pelosi. The Chamber of Commerce has got to learn: You can't have it all.

If America could get a timeout on endless immigration from the Third World, we'd have a chance to reform ourselves and drain these deep sewers of depravity, racism, and xenophobia that liberals keep finding around every corner. They'll be happier. We'll be happier. After a half century of taking in the hardest cases in the world, America needs a little "me time.

Susan Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, and The Family. She conspired to kill cops, blow up buildings, and stage an armed robbery of the Brinks truck in Nanuet, New York. Sentenced to fifty-eight years in prison for felony murder and possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives, Rosenberg was released from prison by President Clinton on his last day in office. Just

A lot of what goes on these days with high-flying companies and these overpaid CEO's, who're really just looting from the top and aren't watching out for anybody but themselves, really upsets me. It's one of the main things wrong with American business today.

AFFORESTATION  (AFFORESTA'TION)   n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales'sCommon Law of England.