Julia Gillard Quotes

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

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

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.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

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

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education sector, it envisions that one day it will be able to train more teachers and provide much-needed facilities that will transform schools into more conducive learning environments.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

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

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

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.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.