Wynton Marsalis Quotes

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

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

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

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

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

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

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

Government school education across India is in shambles.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.