Philip Pullman Quotes

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

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

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is 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.

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

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

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

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

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

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

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.