A Quote by Naveen Jain

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

Naveen Jain

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Applied Billions Billions Of Dollars Brain Brings Classroom Developing Dollars Educating Improving Resources Spent Student Supporting Teachers

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Naveen Jain
Indian - Businessman
Born: September 6, 1959

I reject the notion that supporting our dedicated classroom teachers is at odds with improving the education our children receive.

John Bel Edwards

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

Vagit Alekperov

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Bob Beauprez

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

Donald Trump

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Donald Trump

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Conrad Burns

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

George Soros

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Van Jones

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Bobby Jindal

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Arne Duncan

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Muhammad Yunus

The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

Andy Grove

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

Lisa Madigan

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.

John Medina

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.