Dean Kamen Quotes

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.