George W. Bush Quotes

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

I did most of my schooling in Miami.

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.

A person's school and teachers help lay a strong foundation, which leads to success.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I was honestly never a huge school person.