Dave Eggers Quotes

I have vowed to make my administration's educational priorities - indeed, priorities in any issue area - abundantly clear. Students come first, and hardworking faculty deserve every respect and dignity.

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

We need to have close cooperation between schools and families.

We cannot build a prosperous state without good schools.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.