Quotes About Reform

A state employee too frightened to come forward. A reformed lawyer so spooked that he went to court in another state and changed his name. An ex-con with no real address.

Half my life is an act of revision.

There's no stopping the Catholic Church," Nora had said. "You shouldn't try to stop them; all you can do is try to control the damage they do." Grace

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

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.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.