John E. Chubb Quotes

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

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

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

I don't believe in private education.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

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

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

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

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.