Top 1200 Government Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

[Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush's administration.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.