A Quote by Davis Guggenheim

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

Davis Guggenheim

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Davis Guggenheim
American - Writer
Born: November 3, 1963

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

Martin O'Malley

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Vivek Wadhwa

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

Al Franken

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Cammi Granato

Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior.

Jo Frost

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

Mark Foley

Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

Henry Louis Gates

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

Ro Khanna

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

Michael Bolton

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

Michael Bolton

Our schools play an important role in preparing our students to enter the workforce.

Mike Parson

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

John Hutton

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

James Patterson

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Alex Steffen

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can't be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.

Tim Ryan

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