Schools Quotes

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.