Top 1200 Education In America Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

In other countries, rich and poor, education remains substantially free, with educational standards that rank high in global comparisons. Even in the US, higher education was almost free during the economically successful years before the neoliberal reaction - and it was a much poorer country then. The GI bill provided free education to huge numbers of people - white men overwhelmingly - who would probably never have gone to college, a great benefit to them personally and to the whole society. Tuition at private colleges was far below today's exorbitant costs.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

The vision Donald Trump has articulated to Make America Great Again means a stronger America at home and abroad.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

The court that serves America should reflect America.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

I love America. America gave me wings.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

Hillary Clinton is excoriating Donald Trump over Trump University? The Clinton scandal at Laureate Education, a for-profit education chain of schools and colleges operating world-wide, including the United States, is much worse.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

While there are many illegal immigrants in America who are good people, many, many, this doesn't change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower skilled workers with less education, who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly pay back.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic playing field for every student. State Boards of Education are ready to play an active role in this process and some have already started the progression of adoption. We are eager to move this agenda forward.

I received a call from America after finishing 'Suspect', and I told them that I would go to America if things are ready.

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

I am for America because America is for the common people.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.

So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they're so upbeat and positive and polite.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.

The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

America's business leaders, large and small, must be a part of the solution to bridge America's skills gap.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.