John Hodgman Quotes

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

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

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

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.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

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.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

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.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.