Quotes About Education

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public schools, so I never really learned it.

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

When Matt Bevin attacks teachers, he's insulting our friends, families, and neighbors, along with our public schools.

Public schools have given so much to our family - I've been proud to fight for them as a state senator and lieutenant governor.

Our schools have made our state great, and we have to make our public schools the best they can be.

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

I've always believed that what's best for our kids is what's best for our state. That's why I've dedicated my life to public service, working as an educator, a school administrator, a state superintendent, and now as a candidate for governor.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

I like to think that I am providing a public service to educate parents.

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.